Luis Padial

Luis Padial ( Full name: Luis Padial y Vizcarrondo; born February 6, 1832 in San Juan, Puerto Rico; † March 5, 1879 in Madrid, Spain ) was a Brigadier, politician and one of the most important abolitionists in Puerto Rico.

Padial came from a wealthy family and was educated at the best private schools of San Juan. Then, his parents sent in to Toledo, where he was to begin a military career.

Padial attended the Military Academy of Toledo and was named after his graduation to the Lieutenant of the Spanish army. In 1863 he was stationed in Puerto Rico, as in the Dominican Republic took a rebellion of independence fighters. Padials battalion was ordered to put down the rebellion. In an argument he was injured badly and went back to Puerto Rico to take care of his wounds. After he himself had witnessed how cruel the Dominicans were treated by the Spaniards, he became convinced that their quest was noble and just after independence. After his recovery, he sat down, therefore, for the cause of the Dominican Republic one, which ended up on the orders of the Spanish Governor Gene Real Messina in December 1864, he was deported from Puerto Rico.

Padial went to Spain and joined there the liberals who wanted to topple under the command of General Primm the Spanish monarchy of Queen Isabella II and replaced by a republic. Padial organized in 1866 an attack from Portugal in 1867 and another from France. After the rebels had achieved their goal in 1868, he was appointed Brigadier of the battalion of Madrid.

Upon his return to Puerto Rico Padial in 1869 as representative of the island at the Spanish court. On 13 November of the same year he wrote a letter to the Minister of Overseas, Segismundo Moret, in which he called for more autonomy for Puerto Rico and the abolition of slavery following the example of Canada. On November 19, 1872, he presented together with Baldorioty Román de Castro, Julio Vizcarrondo Moret and a second proposal for abolitionism, the Spanish government approved on March 22, 1873 and was known as the Moret Law.

1874 Padial went into a voluntary exile in Switzerland, as the Spanish monarchy came to power again. In January 1879 he returned to Spain, where he died shortly afterwards.

  • Military person
  • Politicians (Puerto Rico)
  • Born in 1832
  • Died in 1879
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Toledo, Spain Isabella II of Spain
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