Jose de Mazarredo y Salazar
Jose de Mazarredo y Salazar | |
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Portrait of Mazarredo by Jean François-Marie Bellier | |
| Nickname(s) | El Bilbaíno |
| Born | 8 March 1745 Bilbao, Spain |
| Died | 29 July 1812 Madrid, Spain |
| Allegiance | Spain |
| Service | Spanish Navy |
| Years of service | 1771–1805 |
| Rank | Lieutenant general |
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Lieutenant-General Jose de Mazarredo Salazar de Muñatones y Gortázar (8 March 1745 – 29 July 1812) was a Spanish Navy officer, cartographer, diplomat and astronomer who served in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. A professor of naval tactics, he was considered to be one of the best Spanish naval commanders of the period.