José Antonio Manso de Velasco y Sánchez de Samaniego, KOS was a Spanish military officer and politician who served as the governor of Chile and viceroy of Peru.
Portrait by Cristóbal Lozano, 1746
Portrait of Antonio Manso de Velasco in the Museo Histórico Nacional of Chile
Photograph of the tomb that keeps the remains of Manso de Velasco, located in the Church of San Pedro in the city of Priego de Córdoba
Siege of Havana
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The siege of Havana was the capture of the Spanish-held city of Havana, Cuba in 1762 as part of the war between Britain and Spain which formed part of the larger Seven Years' War. After the Spanish ab
José Manso de Velasco, 1st Count of Superunda
…the crown in 1761. However, his trip home took him through the port of Havana in the then-Captaincy General of Cuba, just at a time when the colony was under siege. The British laid siege to the port, and Manso de Velasco, nominally the highest-ranking military officer in the area, found himself named the "Chief…
The Capture of Havana, 1762, Taking the Town, 14 August Dominic Serres, 1775
The British expeditionary fleet
Bombardment of the Morro Castle, Havana, 1 July 1762 by Richard Paton
British siege guns before Morro Castle, by Dominic Serres