Jose de Mazarredo y Salazar

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Mazarredo and the second or maternal family name is Salazar.
Jose de Mazarredo y Salazar
Portrait of Mazarredo by Jean François-Marie Bellier
NicknameEl Bilbaíno
BornMarch 8, 1745
Bilbao, Spain
DiedJuly 29, 1812(1812-07-29) (aged 67)
Madrid, Spain
AllegianceSpain
BranchSpanish Navy
Service years1771–1805
RankLieutenant general
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Lieutenant-General Jose de Mazarredo Salazar de Muñatones y Gortázar (8 March 1745 – 29 July 1812) was a Spanish Navy officer, cartographer, diplomat and astronomer who served in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. A professor of naval tactics, he was considered to be one of the best Spanish naval commanders of the period.

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