Tomás de Figueroa

{{Short description|Spanish Army officer (1747–1811)}}

{{family name hatnote|Figueroa|Caravaca|lang=Spanish}}

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|name = Tomás de Figueroa

|image = Tomás_de_Figueroa_2.jpg

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|birth_date = {{birth year|1747}}

|birth_place = Estepona, Spain

|death_date = 1 April {{Death year and age|1811|1747}}

|death_place = Santiago, Captaincy General of Chile

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|children =

|allegiance = Spain

|battles = {{ubl|Huilliche uprising of 1792|Figueroa mutiny (executed)}}

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Tomás de Figueroa y Caravaca ({{Circa|1747}} – 1 April 1811) was a Spanish Army officer. He was active in the military outpost of Valdivia and later in Santiago as a royalist during the early phase of the Chilean struggle for independence. He was born in Estepona, near Málaga in southern Spain. A soldier by profession, he had to migrate Chile in 1775 after having killed a man in a duel in Spain. In late 1792 he led Spanish forces that suppressed a Huilliche uprising around Río Bueno and Futahuillimapu in southern Chile.{{cite book

| last = Barros Arana

| first = Diego

| author-link1 = Diego Barros Arana

| title = Historia General de Chile

| volume = VII

| url = http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-9009.html

| year = 2000

| orig-year = 1886

| edition = 2

| publisher = Editorial Universitaria

| location = Santiago, Chile

| isbn = 956-11-1535-2

| language = Spanish

|chapter = Capítulo XVII

| pages = 66–69

}} After leading a mutiny to restore colonial order in Santiago on 1 April 1811, he was summarily executed on the orders of pro-independence leader Juan Martínez de Rozas.