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Felipe Alfau Mendoza

Felipe Alfau Mendoza

Spanish military officer

Felipe Alfau Mendoza (c. 1845/1848 – 1937) was a Spanish military officer. He served as the first Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco and as Captain-General of Catalonia.

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Biography

Born in Santo Domingo,[1][note 1] son to the Dominican trinitario Felipe Alfau y Bustamante and Rosa Josefa Mendoza Pineda.[2] Leader of the first brigade of Jägers of Melilla, he was promoted to division general in 1910.[3]

After the 1912 Treaty of Fes and the entry in Tétouan of the Spanish forces commanded by Alfau on 19 February 1913,[4] he became the first High Commissioner of the newly created Spanish protectorate in Morocco on 5 April 1913.[5] He left the post on 15 August 1913, when he was replaced by José Marina Vega.[5]

Later, he was appointed as Captain General of Catalonia,[3] in 1915.[6] Alfau—who, according Francisco J. Romero Salvadó did not take the Defence Juntas seriously—[7] was fired on 27 May 1916 in the context of the 1917 military crisis, and was replaced again by the General Marina.[8]

He died in Casablanca in 1937.[9]

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Informational notes
  1. [N 1]
    Sources mention either 1845[2] or 25 September 1848[1][3] as birthdate.
Citations
  1. [1]
    Cencillo de Pineda 1951, p. 6.
  2. [2]
    Heras y Borrero 2012, p. 311.
  3. [3]
    "Actualidades barcelonesas". La Ilustración Artística (1777). Barcelona: 54–55. 17 January 1916. ISSN 1889-853X.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  4. [4]
    Blanco Núñez 2014; Heras y Borrero 2012.
  5. [5]
    Ladreit de Lacharrière 1937, p. 32.
  6. [6]
    "Capitans Generals a Catalunya (1800-2003)". Base Documental d' Història Contemporànea de Catalunya.
  7. [7]
    Romero Salvadó 1999, p. 59.
  8. [8]
    Lacomba 1965; González Calleja 1998.
  9. [9]
    Heras y Borrero 2012, p. 312.
  10. [10]
    Ministerio de Guerra: "Reales decretos concediendo la Gran Cruz de la Real y militar Orden de San Hermenegildo á los Generales de Brigada D. Joaquín Carrasco y Navarro, D. Pedro de la Brena y Trevilla y D. Felipe Alfau Mendoza, y la Intendente de División D. José Fenech y Codornié" (PDF). Gaceta de Madrid (39): 554–555. 8 February 1908.
  11. [11]
    Ministerio de Guerra: "Real decreto concediendo la Gran Cruz de la Orden del Mérito Militar pensionada, al General de brigada D. Felipe Alfau Mendoza" (PDF). Gaceta de Madrid (20): 136. 20 January 1910.
  12. [12]
    Ministerio de Guerra: "Reales decretos concediendo la Gran Cruz de la Orden Militar de María Cristina al General de división D. Antonio Tover y Marcoleta, y á los de brigada D. Ricardo Morales Yagüero y D. Felipe Alfau Mendoza" (PDF). Gaceta de Madrid (81): 633-634. 22 March 1910.
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