Leonardo Márquez

Leonardo Márquez Araujo (* January 8, 1820 Mexico City, † July 5, 1913 in Havana ) was a Mexican general and ambassador.

Life

His parents were Maria de la Luz Araujo from Mexico City and the captain Cayetano Márquez from Santiago de Querétaro. Leonardo Araujo Márquez was born on January 15, 1830 cadet in Lampazos de Naranjo [ wp 1], where his father was stationed. He was married to Luz Araujo de Márquez.

In the Mexican -American War, he participated in the Battle of Buena Vista.

In Tacubaya Félix María Zuloaga conservative published on December 17, 1857 Plan de Tacubaya [ wp 2], a conservative counterpoint to the liberal Federal Constitution of the United States from Mexico in 1857 by Benito Juarez. which triggered the Guerra de Reforma de México [ wp 3] from. Leonardo Márquez Araujo took it as a general part on the part of the Conservative Party of Antonio López de Santa Anna and Félix María Zuloaga.

Under the command of Leonardo Márquez Araujo 1859 Tacubaya was taken while prisoners and medical students, the Liberals had medical treatment, massacred. Among the victims of the liberal politician Melchor Ocampo [ wp 4] and the General Leandro Valle Martínez were. [ Wp 5] Miguel Miramón, summoned his orders when taking Tacubaya respect to which Leonardo Márquez Araujo, promoted him on April 11 1859 Division General. He was nicknamed Tigre de Tacubaya.

On January 1, 1861 Leonardo Márquez Araujo was beaten and the Conservative Party by the Liberals under the command of José Santos Degollado [ wp 6].

On January 18, 1861 Leonardo Márquez Araujo wrote from Tlalpam a letter to Ignacio Aguilar y Morocho ( 1813-1884 ) [ wp 7], a former minister under Antonio López de Santa Anna, and announced that the time had come for the political, to organize social and military response. At the same time Leonardo Márquez Araujo Ignacio Aguilar y Morocho offered to chair a board of directors and the right to choose to minister. Ignacio Aguilar y Morocho considered a key figure of the commitment of the Conservative Party for the second French intervention in Mexico, was raised by Maximilian I as emperor of Mexico.

In 1864 he was sent as a special envoy to the Emperor Sultan Abdulaziz. When the French troops withdrew from Mexico, Emperor Maximilian I. appointed him in October 1866 as commander of a division, for which he was to excavate only the troops but. 1867 Maximilian appointed him Chief of Staff. and in March 1867 his lieutenant. His troops were defeated by Liberal troops under Porfirio Díaz on April 2, 1867. Leonardo Márquez Araujo fled to Havana.

From an amnesty for conservatives in 1870 Leonardo Márquez Araujo was expressly excluded.

Manuel Romero Rubio reached in 1895 that Porfirio Díaz pardoned him, after which he temporarily returned to Mexico. He is buried in the " La Necropolis Cristóbal Colón " in Havana.