Jaime Milans del Bosch

Jaime Milans del Bosch y Ussía ( born June 8, 1915 in Madrid, † July 26, 1997 ) was a Spanish lieutenant general.

Life

Born into a family with a long military tradition, he fought in the Spanish Civil War as an officer on the side of the insurgent army against the democratically elected republican government.

Internationally, he has been through participation in an attempted military coup in Spain on February 23, 1981 announced (23 -F). At that time the Lieutenant Colonel of the Guardia Civil in Madrid Antonio Tejero stormed the Spanish Parliament during the vote on the election as Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo. Milans del Bosch Shortly thereafter imposed a state of emergency in Valencia and let out the tanks in the streets. He took the only General participated in the coup and had, after King Juan Carlos had the support assured by the rest of the military and had this made ​​known in a televised speech, give up on the morning of February 24.

On March 8, 1981, the trial against him began before a military court which ended with the verdict on June 3, 1982. Milans del Bosch was sentenced to 26 years and eight months in prison, but was released after only 9 years. He died in 1997 of a brain tumor.

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