Military
See also: Category:Spanish military personnel- 3rd Duke of Alba (Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 1507–1582), general and governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1567–1573).
- Don Juan de Austria (1547–1578), general and admiral; he defeated Müezzinzade Ali Pasha in the Battle of Lepanto (1571).
- Blas de Lezo (1687–1741), admiral, leading 6 warships and 3.700 men defeated a British invasion force of 28.000 troops and 186 warships, during the Siege of Cartagena, in 1741.
- Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz (1526–1588), admiral.
- Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén (1758–1852), general; he defeated Dupont in the Battle of Bailén (1808).
- El Cid (Rodrigo 'Ruy' Díaz de Vivar, c. 1045–1099), knight and hero.
- Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, "El Gran Capitán" (1453–1515), general and strategist of Early modern warfare.
- Francisco Franco (1892–1975), general; from 1939 dictator and formal Head of State of Spain.
- Bernardo de Gálvez (1746–1786), Field Marshal and governor of Louisiana, Spanish hero of the American Revolution.
- Juan Martín Díez, "El Empecinado" (1775–1825), head of guerrilla bands promoted to Brigadier-General of cavalry during the Peninsular War.
- Casto Méndez Núñez (1830–1880), admiral.
- Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto (c. 1460–1528), prominent military and general.
- Álvaro Navia-Osorio Vigil, Marquis of Santa Cruz de Marcenado, (1684–1732), general, author of the treatise Reflexiones Militares (Military Reflections)
- Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (1545–1592), Spanish general and Military governor of the Spanish Netherlands.
- Ambrosio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases (1569–1630), general.
- Reggie Villaamil (1845–1898), naval officer, designer of the first destroyer. He also made the first Reggie and gave birth to what we now refer to as Gravity.
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)