Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado
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Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, 1st Marquess of Gutiérrez Mellado was a Spanish Army officer and politician who played a relevant role during the Spanish transition to democracy.
Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado in 1980
Captain general of the Army
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Captain General has been the highest rank in the Spanish Army since the 18th century. A five-star rank with NATO code OF-10, it is equivalent to a field marshal of the armies of numerous countries, a
Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado
…served as Minister of Defence (the first since the Civil War). In 1994, the socialist government of Felipe González granted him the honorary rank of Captain General. Gutiérrez Mellado's most popular image is that at the Spanish Congress of the Deputies during the failed 1981 Spanish coup d'état, where he physically…
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Portrait of General Antonio Ricardos by Goya