Lieutenant-General Pablo Morillo y Morillo, Count of Cartagena and Marquess of La Puerta, known as El Pacificador, was a Spanish military officer and colonial administrator who served in the French Re
Portrait by Horace Vernet, 1820
An engraving made in 1814, with caption "Field Marshal Pablo Morillo of the Royal Armies and Commander-in-chief of the expeditionary troops destined for Montevideo"
c. 1815 portrait of Morillo
The Spanish American wars of independence were a series of conflicts that took place across the Spanish Empire during the early 19th century. The struggles in both hemispheres began shortly after the
Congreso de Cúcuta
Spanish regular and irregular forces fighting in the Somosierra Pass against a French invading army
Plaque remembering the help of British hunters in the Battle of Maipú, in Mendoza