Mariano Osorio
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Mariano Osorio (Sevilla, Spain; 1777 - † Havana, Cuba; 1819) was a Spanish general and Governor of Chile from 1814-1815.
His military career began during the Spanish Peninsular War in 1808 as the general of the artillery, as well as the professor for mathematics in the military school.
In 1812 he resettled in Peru, where he married Joaquina de la Pezuela, daughter of Peruvian Viceroy Joaquín de la Pezuela. In the Disaster of Rancagua (1814) he was able to defeat the forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Miguel Carrera. In the same year he became the Governor of Chile.
In Chile the time of the reconquest by the Spanish military was thus begun. Osorio sought to reinstate order and justice and with military measures he prevented the onslaught of the insurgents.
In 1816 he returned to Lima and Casimiro Marcó del Pont was made new Governor of Chile. When the Spaniards lost the Battle of Chacabuco, he returned to Chile. There he succeeded in securing victory in the Battle of Cancha Rayada on March 18, 1818. At this battle O'Higgins's arm was injured.
The Battle of Maipu, however, was a major defeat for the Spaniards, and it signified the end of the Spanish authority in almost all of Chile, with the exception of the island of Chiloe and the city of Valdivia.
Osorio proceeded to Cuba, where he died in 1819.
Preceded by: Mateo de Toro Zambrano |
Royal Governor of Chile 1814-1816 |
Succeeded by: Casimiro Marcó del Pont |