Tomás de Figueroa facts for kids
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal family name is Figueroa and the second or maternal family name is Caravaca.
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Tomás de Figueroa
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| Born | 1747 Estepona, Spain |
| Died | April, 1811 (aged 63–64) Santiago, Captaincy General of Chile, Spanish Empire |
| Allegiance | Spain |
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Tomás de Figueroa y Caravaca (1747 – 1811) was a Spanish soldier. He was active in the military outpost of Valdivia and later in Santiago as a royalist during the early phase of the Chilean struggle for independence. He was born in Estepona, near Málaga in southern Spain. A soldier by profession, he had to migrate Chile in 1775 after having killed a man in a duel in Spain. In late 1792 he led Spanish forces that suppressed a Huilliche uprising around Río Bueno and Futahuillimapu in southern Chile. After leading a mutiny to restore colonial order in Santiago on April 1, 1811, he was summarily executed on the orders of pro-independence leader Juan Martínez de Rozas.
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In Spanish: Tomás de Figueroa para niños
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