Gregorio García de la Cuesta

Gregorio García de la Cuesta
Birth nameGregorio García de la Cuesta y Fernández de Celis
Born9 May 1741
La Lastra, Spain
Died1811 (aged 69–70)
Allegiance Spain
Battles / wars

Gregorio García de la Cuesta y Fernández de Celis (9 May 1741 – 1811) was a prominent Spanish general of the Peninsular War.

Charles Oman (1902) stated that:

Throughout the two years during which he held high command in the field, Gregorio de la Cuesta consistently displayed an arrogance and an incapacity far exceeding that of any other Spanish general. (Oman, pp. 140–141.)[1]

Early career

Born in La Lastra, Cantabria, to a family of petty nobles, Cuesta entered military service in 1758 as a member of the Spanish Royal Guards Regiment. He saw several successes as a Lieutenant General during the War of the Pyrenees in the years 1793 to 1795. On 20 December 1795, he led 8,000 Spanish and Portuguese in a successful attack in the Battle of Collioure, capturing Collioure, Fort Saint-Elme and Port-Vendres. Cuesta's force killed or captured 4,000 of the 5,000 defenders.[2] He led a division under José de Urrutia y de las Casas at the successful Battle of Bascara on 14 June 1795.[3] His corps of 7,000 to 9,000 troops captured 1,500 Frenchmen at Puigcerdà on 26 July. The following day, he fell upon and seized the town of Bellver with its 1,000-man French garrison.[4] Unknown to Cuesta, both actions occurred after the Peace of Basel had been signed on 22 July 1795. Political intrigues prevented further advancement until the turmoil of 1805 produced his appointment to Commander in Chief of the Army of Castile.

Peninsular War

When war with France broke out in 1808, Cuesta was already 67 years old. He was at first reluctant to lead the insurgents who rose up in Valladolid but agreed after a gallows was erected outside his house and the indignant populace threatened to hang him.[1] His army was ramshackle, ill-trained and underequipped and his hastily recruited force of 5,000 militia stood little chance against the Grande Armée of Napoleon. It was heavily defeated at Cabezón, forcing Cuesta's withdrawal from his seat of command at Valladolid.

After combining what was left of his army with Lieutenant General Blake's Army of Galicia, Cuesta pulled rank and insisting on a foolhardy march on Valladolid, left his new force vulnerable to a French counterattack. Paralyzed by disunity of command, the pair were defeated on 14 July at the Battle of Medina de Rioseco when Cuesta failed to close the gap between his troops and Blake's.

Negotiations with the Central Junta led to Cuesta's brief promotion to Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish Army. In the absence of a military and political command structure, strategy and coordination with other Spanish forces proved impossible. He was soon sacked and arrested due to political machinating by his opponents.[citation needed]

Following the loss of Madrid to Napoleon at the Battle of Somosierra the situation in Spain became more desperate and Cuesta was allowed to reconstitute the Army of Extremadura in order to defend the southern frontier. In defiance of the military wisdom of the time Cuesta pursued an offensive as soon as he had constructed a fighting force. This met with success. In January and February 1809, all of Badajoz was reclaimed from the French.

Cuesta was refused supplies and reinforcements until local authorities could review the appointments he had made to the army. As a result, a French offensive in the Spring annulled Cuesta's previous gains. On 26 March, Cuesta was badly wounded and trampled by cavalry, and his army savagely defeated, at the Battle of Medellín. Like Blücher after him, he continued fighting as a near-invalid.

Cuesta joined forces with the British army under Wellington. Relations with his British allies were difficult, taking into account that the British prioritized their interests before the Spanish, something that García de la Cuesta strongly opposed. However, both prepared the battle of Talavera (July 28), obtaining an important victory for the allies. For the merits of this battle, Wellesley would receive the titles Viscount Wellington and Viscount Talavera de la Reina . For his part, Cuesta will receive the Grand Cross of Carlos III from the Central Board.

However, after the victory at the Battle of Talavera, some Spanish defeats occurred, to the great satisfaction of the general's enemies. Despite the victory achieved with Wellington, in December he was forced to resign from his position. Shortly afterwards, in Badajoz, he suffered a stroke that caused hemiplegia and for medical reasons he was evacuated to Seville and Malaga, and then, due to the approach of the French, to Mallorca . He arrived in Palma on May 14, 1810. On the island he published the manifesto in which he justified his actions during the War of Independence.

In 1810, Cuesta suffered a serious stroke from which he died in retirement a year later.

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Oman, Charles (1902). A History of the Peninsula War, Vol. I, pp. 67–68140–141. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 11 April 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Smith, p. 64.
  3. ^ Smith, p. 103.
  4. ^ Smith, p. 104.

References

  • Chandler, David G. (1995). The Campaigns of Napoleon. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-02-523660-1
  • Gates, David (2001). The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81083-2
  • Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-276-9

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