Carlos de Montúfar
Born
Carlos de Montúfar y Larrea

November 2, 1780
Quito, Ecuador
DiedJuly 31, 1816
Buga

Carlos de Montúfar y Larrea-Zurbano (Quito, November 2, 1780 - Buga, July 31, 1816) was a Creole nobleman and soldier considered one of the liberators of current Ecuador. He fought alongside Simón Bolívar and was nicknamed El Caudillo.[1]

Biography

Carlos was the third son of the marriage of Creole nobles Juan Pío de Montúfar y Larrea, II Marquis of Selva Alegre, and Teresa de Larrea y Villavicencio. His father was a politician in the independence movement developed in Quito between 1809 and 1812, a forerunner to the independence of Ecuador. [2]

Military career

In 1805 he moved to Spain to begin his military training at the Royal Academy of Nobles.[3] He fought against the Napoleonic army in the War of Independence, taking an active part as Aide-de-Camp to General Castaños in the Battle of Bailén.In 1808, considered Napoleon's first military defeat.[4]

Carlos de Montúfar y Larrea, Royal Commissioner of Quito.

Royal commissioner and defender of the State of Quito

He was appointed in Cádiz by the Supreme Central Board as royal commissioner for the Court of Quito, with broad autonomy from the viceroys of Peru and New Granada, in order to calm the rebel tumults.[5]

Death

On June 29, 1816, he participated in the war of independence of Granada in the Battle of Cuchilla del Tambo. They were defeated and many independence fighters, among them Francisco José de Caldas, were captured and executed in the following days. Montúfar was also captured and sentenced to death by the Spanish general Juan de Sámano. He was shot in the back, as a traitor, in the city of Buga on July 31, 1816.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Biografía de Carlos de Montúfar (Su vida, historia, bio resumida)". www.buscabiografias.com. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  2. ↑ "Biografia de Carlos de Montúfar". www.biografiasyvidas.com. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  3. ↑ Nueva biografía de Humboldt insinúa que era gay.
  4. ↑ Andress, Reinhard; Navia, Silvia (2012). "Das Tagebuch von Carlos Montúfar: Faksimile und neue Transkription". HiN - Alexander von Humboldt im Netz. Internationale Zeitschrift für Humboldt-Studien (in German). 13 (24): 21–74. doi:10.18443/163. ISSN 1617-5239.
  5. ↑ read.dukeupress.edu https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article/48/4/642/157959/Selva-Alegre-President-of-the-Quitena-Junta-of. Retrieved 2023-11-01. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ "Montufar Canton (Carchi, Ecuador)". www.crwflags.com. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
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