Jerónimo Valdés was a Spanish

Spain

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 military figure and administrator. Born in Villarín, in Asturias

Asturias

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, he participated in the battle of Ayacucho

Battle of Ayacucho

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 (1824), which was a defeat for the Spanish. He served as Viceroy of Navarre

Navarre

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 from 1833 to 1834 and also served as Minister of War. He fought on the Liberal (Isabeline) side in the First Carlist War

First Carlist War

The First Carlist War was a civil war in Spain from 1833-1839.-Historical background:At the beginning of the 18th century, Philip V, the first Bourbon king of Spain, promulgated the Salic Law, which declared illegal the inheritance of the Spanish crown by women...

. Valdés lost the Battle of Artaza

Battle of Artaza

The Battle of Artaza was a battle that occurred on April 20-22, 1835 during the First Carlist War. Jerónimo Valdés, at the time Minister of War, arrived at the area known as Las Amescoas with 22,000 men with the intention of definitively destroying the Carlist forces.Zumalacárregui had 5,000 men,...

 (April 22, 1835).

Valdés signed the Lord Eliot Convention

Lord Eliot Convention

The Lord Eliot Convention, or simply the Eliot Convention or Eliot Treaty , was an April 1835 agreement brokered by Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans between the two opposing sides of the First Carlist War...

 soon after, regulating the treatment of prisoners during that war.

He later served as captain-general of Valencia

Valencia (province)

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, and of Galicia, and served as governor of Cuba from 1841 to September 1843.

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