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Francisco Ballesteros
Francisco López Ballesteros (7 March 1770 – 1833) was a Spanish army officer.
Ballesteros enlisted as a cadet in 1788 in the 1st Battalion of Volunteers of Aragón where, apart from a ten-month stint with the Battalion of Volunteers of Navarra, he stayed until transferring to a Catalan regiment, where he was promoted to captain in 1794. He later saw action in the War of the Oranges as a captain in the Light Infantry Regiment of Barbastro.
Ballesteros was in Madrid during the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising, and immediately went up to Asturias, where the Junta General del Principado de Asturias promoted him to field marshal.
Following Blake's defeat at Espinosa, the Asturians had reorganized and increased the numbers of their battalions during the winter of 1808.
By March 1809, the Junta had raised 20,000 men under arms, of which nearly 10,000 men were with Ballasteros at his headquarters at Colombres, where he had taken up the line of the Deba, skirmishing occasionally with the French outposts.
On 10 June 1809, he stormed Santander, driving out General Noirot. The following day General Bonet sent two battalions that were beaten off, but on the 12th, Bonet attacked with his whole force and defeated Ballesteros's division. Although Ballesteros himself escaped by sea, with José O'Donnell, 3,000 of his men were captured, and the rest dispersed, many of them fleeing back to Asturias.
In July 1809, he sailed from Gijón to La Coruña on HMS Amazon and then made his way down through Castile to Andalucía.
In the Autumn 1809 campaign, Ballesteros commanded the 3rd Division of Duke del Parque's Army of the Left. The 3rd was, by far, the largest division of that army, with 368 officers and 9,623 men (morning state of 20 November) and saw action at Tamames (18 October) and Alba de Tormes (28 November).
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Francisco Ballesteros
Francisco López Ballesteros (7 March 1770 – 1833) was a Spanish army officer.
Ballesteros enlisted as a cadet in 1788 in the 1st Battalion of Volunteers of Aragón where, apart from a ten-month stint with the Battalion of Volunteers of Navarra, he stayed until transferring to a Catalan regiment, where he was promoted to captain in 1794. He later saw action in the War of the Oranges as a captain in the Light Infantry Regiment of Barbastro.
Ballesteros was in Madrid during the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising, and immediately went up to Asturias, where the Junta General del Principado de Asturias promoted him to field marshal.
Following Blake's defeat at Espinosa, the Asturians had reorganized and increased the numbers of their battalions during the winter of 1808.
By March 1809, the Junta had raised 20,000 men under arms, of which nearly 10,000 men were with Ballasteros at his headquarters at Colombres, where he had taken up the line of the Deba, skirmishing occasionally with the French outposts.
On 10 June 1809, he stormed Santander, driving out General Noirot. The following day General Bonet sent two battalions that were beaten off, but on the 12th, Bonet attacked with his whole force and defeated Ballesteros's division. Although Ballesteros himself escaped by sea, with José O'Donnell, 3,000 of his men were captured, and the rest dispersed, many of them fleeing back to Asturias.
In July 1809, he sailed from Gijón to La Coruña on HMS Amazon and then made his way down through Castile to Andalucía.
In the Autumn 1809 campaign, Ballesteros commanded the 3rd Division of Duke del Parque's Army of the Left. The 3rd was, by far, the largest division of that army, with 368 officers and 9,623 men (morning state of 20 November) and saw action at Tamames (18 October) and Alba de Tormes (28 November).