From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Manuel Pavía y Lacy, 1st Marquis of Novaliches
Manuel Pavía y Lacy, 1st Marquis of Novaliches
Manuel Pavía y Lacy, 1st Marquis de Novaliches (July 6, a cabinet of Moderates in 1864 that lived but a few days.
1814 in Granada – October 22, 1896 in Madrid), Spanish He volunteered to crush the insurrection in Madrid on
marshal, was born at Granada on the 6th of July 1814. He the 22nd of June 1866, and when the revolution broke out
was the son of Colonel Pavía, and after a few years at the in September 1868 accepted the command of Queen Is-
Jesuit school in Valencia he entered the Royal Artillery abella’s troops. He was defeated by Marshal Serrano at
Academy at Segovia. In 1833 he became a lieutenant in the bridge of Alcolea on the 28th of September 1868, and
the guards of Queen Isabella II, and during the Carlist War was so badly wounded in the face that he was disfigured
from 1833 to 1840 he became general of division in the for life. He kept apart during the revolution and went to
latter year at the early age of twenty-six. The Moderate meet King Alfonso XII of Spain when he landed at Valen-
party made him war minister in 1847, and sent him to cia in January 1875. The Restoration made the Marquis
Catalonia, where his efforts to put down a Carlist rising de Novaliches a senator, and the new king gave him the
were not attended with success. He had been made a sen- Golden Fleece. He died in Madrid on the 22nd of October
ator in 1845, and marquis in 1848. 1896.
He was sent out to Manila in 1852 as governor-gen-
eral of the Philippine Islands. In April 1854 he crushed
with much sternness a formidable insurrection and car-
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ried out many useful reforms. On his return to Spain he • This article incorporates text from a publication
married the Countess of Santa Isabel, and commanded now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed
the reserves in the Peninsula during the war with Moroc- (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge
co. He refused the war portfolio twice offered him by University Press.
Marshals O’Donnell and Narvaez and undertook to form
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