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José Gutiérrez de la Concha, 1st Marquess of Havana

José Gutiérrez de la Concha, 1st Marquess of Havana

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José Gutiérrez de la Concha e Irigoyen, 1st Marquess of Havana, 1st Viscount of Cuba, Grandee of Spain (Córdoba, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, 4 June 1809 – Madrid, Spain, 5 November 1895) was a Spanish noble, general, and politician who served three times as Captain General of Cuba and once as the Prime Minister of Spain.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gutiérrez de la Concha and the second or maternal family name is Irigoyen.
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He was born in Córdoba, then part of the Viceroyalty of River Plate in the Spanish Empire.

In 1851, while in command in Cuba, he defeated the Lopez Expedition, a filibustering attempt to seize the island.


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