Mariano Osorio
Mariano Osorio (* 1777 in Seville, Spain, † 1819 in Havana, Cuba) was a Spanish general and Governor of Chile from 1814 to 1815.
Biography
His military career began during the Spanish War of Independence from 1808 to 1812 as a general of artillery, as well as a professor of mathematics at the military school.
In 1812 he moved to Peru. In the battle of Rancagua in 1814 he was able to beat the troops of the independence fighters to Bernardo O'Higgins and José Miguel Carrera. In the same year he was employed as governor of Chile.
In Chile, now came the time of the Reconquista, the Spanish rule should be restored. He tried to restore law and order, and to prevent the attacks with military action of the rebels.
In 1816 he returned to Lima and Casimiro Marcó del Pont became the new governor of Chile. When the Spaniards lost the battle of Chacabuco, he returned to Chile. In the Battle of Cancha Rayada on March 18, 1818 Here he succeeded his last victory. Here Bernardo O'Higgins was wounded in the arm.
The Battle of Maipú he lost and this meant practically the end of Spanish rule in most of Chile, except on the island of Chiloé and the city of Valdivia.
Osorio retired to Cuba, where he died in 1819.
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- Spanish -language biography of Osorio
Reign of Charles V: Diego de Almagro | Pedro de Valdivia | Francisco de Villagra | Rodrigo de Quiroga | (Francisco de Aguirre )
Reign of Philip II: García Hurtado de Mendoza | Rodrigo de Quiroga | Francisco de Villagra | Pedro de Villagra | Melchor Bravo de Saravia | Martín Ruiz de Gamboa | Diego García de Cáceres | Alonso de Sotomayor | Pedro de Viscarra | Martín García onez de Loyola
Reign of Philip III: Pedro de Viscarra | Francisco de Quinonez | Alonso García | Alonso de Ribera | Luis Merlo de la Fuente | Juan de la Jaraquemada | Fernando Talaverano | Lope de Ulloa | Cristóbal de la Cerda.
Reign of Philip IV: Pedro Osores de Ulloa | Francisco de Alava | Luis Fernández de Córdoba | Francisco Laso de la Vega | Francisco López de Zúñiga | Martín de Mujica | Alonso Figueroa | Antonio de Acuña | Francisco de la Fuente | Pedro Porter Casanate | Diego González Montero | Ángel de Peredo | Francisco de Meneses
Reign of Charles II: Miguel Gómez de Silva | Diego Dávila Coello | Diego González Montero | Juan Henríquez de Villalobos | José de Garro | Tomás Marín González de Poveda
Reign of Philip V: Francisco Ibáñez de Peralta | Juan Andrés de Ustariz de Vertizberea | José de Santiago Concha | Gabriel Cano de Aponte | Francisco de Sánchez de la Barreda | Manuel de Salamanca | José Antonio Manso de Velasco | Francisco José de Ovando
Reign of Ferdinand VI. Domingo Ortiz de Rozas | Manuel d' Amat i de Junyent
Reign of Charles III: Félix de Berroeta | Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga | Juan de Balmaceda | Francisco Javier de Morales | Agustín de Jáuregui | Tomás Álvarez de Acevedo | Ambrosio de Benavides.
Reign of Charles IV: Ambrosio O'Higgins | José de Ugarte y Rezabal | Gabriel de Avilés | Joaquín del Pino Sánchez de Rojas | José de Santiago Concha Jiménez Lobatón | Francisco Tadeo Diez de Medina | Luis Muñoz de Guzmán
Reign of Ferdinand VII: Juan Rodríguez Ballesteros | Francisco Antonio García Carrasco | Mateo de Toro Zambrano y Ureta | Mariano Osorio | Casimiro Marcó del Pont
- Military person (Spain )
- Governor (Chile)
- Governor (Panama)
- Born in 1777
- Died in 1819
- Man