Mauricio de Zúñiga

Mauricio de Zúñiga
(1st) 6º Spanish Governor of West Florida
In office 1812–1813
Preceded by	Francisco San Maxent
Succeeded by	Mateo González Manrique
(2nd) 9º Spanish Governor of West Florida
In office 1816–1816
Preceded by	José de Soto
Succeeded by	Francisco San Maxent
Personal details
Born	XVIII century El Prat de Llobregat, in Baix Llobregat (Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain)
Died	Not Known
Profession	governor

Mauricio de Zuñiga was the governor of Florida in 1812-13, and 1816. He participated in the Fort Gadsden, trying for recovered to slaves in Florida.

Early years

Mauricio de Zuniga was born in the eighteenth century, probably in El Prat de Llobregat, in Baix Llobregat (Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain). As a youth, he joined the Spanish army, and he was ascending in the army until he took the post of Colonel. ^[1]

Political Career

In 1812, Mauricio de Zuniga was appointed governor of Florida, whose headquarters were in Pensacola. In this moment, the strength of Prospect Bluff was attracting fugitives slaves and refugees Amerindians and the commander of the Military division of the Southern United States, Andrew Jackson, realizing that he was sending armies to the area that were not sufficient to eject slaves and Indians, decided that the Spanish authorities will help to expel him. So, Mauricio de Zúñiga, although he did not have enough troops to send against force and drive out the Naive Americans people and blacks, he did send to Captain Sebastián Pintado to investigate the matter and recover any runaway slave who belonged to the Spanish of East and West Florida. ^[2] However, the following year, in 1813, he left the office of governor of place. Later, in 1816, he returned to the post of governor.

References

1. ^ http://institucional.us.es/tamericanistas/uploads/revista/19/6-Sigfrido%20V%C3%A1zquez%20Cienfuegos.pdf. Retos y respuestas del municipio de Cartagena de Indias (Challenges and responses of the municipality of Cartagena de Indias) (In Spanish)
2. ^ * http://www.javeriana.edu.co/Facultades/C_Sociales/memoria/memoria15/resistencia.pdf. MEMORIA Y SOCIEDAD (MEMORY AND SOCIETY) (In Spanish)

External links

• http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/fortgadsden.html. Fort Gadsden and the "Negro Fort" - Florida.
• http://tidewater-florida.com/national-forests/apalachicola/fort-gadsden.htm. Fort Gadsden National Historic Site, Apalachicola National Forest.