Enrique O'Donnell, Conde del Abisbal

Enrique José O'Donnell y Anethen, Conde de La Bisbal (* 1769 in Spain, † May 17, 1834 in Montpellier ) was a Spanish general.

O'Donnell was born into an Irish noble family, who had gone into exile in 1689 after the disastrous for the Catholic Irish Battle of the Boyne. He entered young into the Spanish Guard and participated in the War of Spain against the French in 1795 in part. In the Spanish Insurrektionskrieg against Napoleon Bonaparte in 1810 he was promoted to General and was awarded the supreme command in Catalonia.

With a victory at La Bisbal on 14 September 1810, he earned the title of Count of La Bisbal, but was then beaten several times, so on April 23 at Levido and on February 20, 1811 at Vic. In the dispute with the Cortes early 1814, he was imprisoned.

After Ferdinand VII reinstatement to the Captain-General of Andalusia appointed, he commanded 1815, the army of observation on the French border and in 1818 governor of Cadiz. At the collapse of the French in 1823, he won with a support of General O'Daly the sent corps some benefits and then took command of the first army of reserve, which was intended to cover Madrid.

In this position, he behaved so ambiguous that its own troops forced him to abdicate, whereupon he fled to France, where he was allocating the French Government Limoges as a residence. When Maria Christina in 1833 came to the government, O'Donnell wanted to return to Spain, but died on the way in Montpellier on 17 May 1834.

His brother Enrico Carlos, born in 1780, died in 1830 in Madrid as Captain-General in Old Castile.

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• O'Donnell
• Military person (Spain )
• Spaniard
• Born in 1769
• Died in 1834
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