Vicente Genaro de Quesada (1782 Havana

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, Cuba

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 - 15th August 1836 Madrid

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) was a Spanish

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 military figure. He participated in the Battle of Burgos

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 (1808) during the Peninsular War

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, leading the Royal Guard

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 and Walloon Guard

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. Forming a rearguard

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 for the shattered Spanish lines, these troops absorbed repeated charges by General Lasalle's French cavalry without yielding an inch of ground.

He later fought in the First Carlist War

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 on the Isabeline (Liberal) side. He lost the Battle of Alsasua

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in April 1834.