Melchor Pacheco y Obes

Melchor Pacheco y Obes
Born(1809-01-20)20 January 1809
Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
Died21 May 1855(1855-05-21) (aged 46)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Allegiance Uruguay
Branch Uruguayan Army
RankGeneral
ConflictsCisplatine War

Uruguayan Civil War

Platine War
SpousesManuela Texera
Matilde Stewart Aguell

Melchor Pacheco y Obes (20 January 1809 - 21 May 1855) was a military officer and politician with outstanding activity in what is now present-day Uruguay. He was a member of the Colorado Party and was one of the fundamental men of the Gobierno de la Defensa in Montevideo, during the Uruguayan Civil War.

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