Don Lucas Fernando Palacios y Valenzuela (?? - 1761 to 1762) was a soldier and politician also named Knight of the Order of Alcantara

Order of Alcántara

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, Commander of the Order of Calatrava

Order of Calatrava

The Order of Calatrava was the first military order founded in Castile, but the second to receive papal approval. The papal bull confirming the Order of Calatrava as a Militia was given by Pope Alexander III on September 26, 1164.-Origins and Foundation:...

 and Field Marshal

Field Marshal

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 of the Royal Army. He served in the Spanish Guards Regiment, obtaining securities ever higher. He got pass from Cadet

Cadet

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 to Captain. In 1758, he was appointed Royal Governor of Florida

Florida

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 and he held the job until the year 1761 or 1762, the year he was killed by Indigenous

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when he decided to face them.