Antonio de Quintanilla
{{Short description|Spanish brigadier and Governor of Chiloé}}
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| name=Antonio de Quintanilla
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| order=Royal Governor of Chiloé
| term_start=1820
| term_end=1826
| monarch=Ferdinand VII
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| predecessor=Ignacio María Justiz y Urrutia
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| birth_date= 1787
| death_date=1863
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|allegiance = {{flagicon|Spain|1785}} Spain
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|rank = Brigadier
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- Chilean War of Independence
- Battle of Yerbas Buenas
- Battle of San Carlos
- Siege of Chillán
- Battle of El Roble
- Battle of Rancagua
- Battle of Chacabuco
- Battle of Agüi
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Antonio Quintanilla (Pámanes, Spain; 1787 - † Almería, Spain; 1863) was a Spanish brigadier and Governor of Chiloé from 1820 to 1826. He was the last royalist to hold the position.{{Cite book|title=Armies, Politics and Revolution: Chile, 1808-1826|last=Cruz|first=Juan Luis Ossa Santa|date=2014|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=9781781381328|location=Liverpool|pages=214}}
Background
Quintanilla was the son of Francisco de Quintanilla and Teresa Herrera y Santiago, who were members of distinguished families in the Spanish region of Pámanes.{{Cite book|title=Quintanilla y Chiloé: la epopeya de la constancia|last=Marín|first=Manuel Torres|date=1985|publisher=Andres Bello|location=Santiago|pages=2, 86|language=es}} He was born November 14, 1787.
He married Antonia Álvarez de Garay, the daughter of Captain Francisco alvarez and Bartola Garay.{{Cite book|title=Los Defensores del Rey, Segunda Edicion|last=Harriet|first=Fernando Campos|date=1976|publisher=Andres Bello|location=Santiago|pages=275|language=es}}
Governor of Chiloé
As a governor of Chiloé, Quintanilla ordered in 1824 the construction of Fuerte Real de San Carlos.{{cite journal |last1=Sahady Villanueva |first1=Antonio |last2=Bravo Sánchez |first2=José |last3=Quilodrán Rubio |first3=Carolina |date=2011 |title=Fuertes españoles en Chiloé: las huellas de la historia en medio del paisaje insular |url=http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-83582011000300005 |journal=Revista INVI |volume=73 |issue=26 |pages=133–165 |doi= 10.4067/S0718-83582011000300005|access-date=30 January 2016|doi-access=free }} He is also noted for defeating General Ramón Freire's first attempt to liberate Chiloé in 1825 after he dissolved the Chilean congress by force.{{Cite book|title=A History of Chile, 1808-2002, Second Edition|last1=Collier|first1=Simon|last2=Sater|first2=William|date=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0521827493|location=Cambridge|pages=49}} By January 1826, Quintanilla finally surrendered and became the last Spanish official to withdraw from Chile. He came back to Spain and served as a brigadier of the Santander barracks then the deputy general of La Mancha police.
Quintanilla was the father of Antonio de Quintanilla Alvarez, a Spanish official given the Carlist title of Marquis de Quintanilla.{{Cite book|title=Quintanilla y Chiloé: la epopeya de la constancia|last=Marín|first=Manuel Torres|date=1985|publisher=Andres Bello|location=Santiago|pages=87|language=es}}
References
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| title=Royal Governor of Chiloé
| before=Ignacio María Justiz y Urrutia
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| years=1820-1826}}
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Category:People from Trasmiera
Category:Royal governors of Chiloé
Category:Spanish military personnel of the Chilean War of Independence
Category:Royalists in the Hispanic American Revolution
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