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Antonio de Benavides
Antonio Benavides Gonzales (or Antonio Benavides Vazan or Bajan〔) de Molina (December 8, 1678–January 9, 1762) was an important Lieutenant General of Spanish Army, who held a leading position in the Americas as Governor and Captain General of Florida (1718–1734), Veracruz (1734–1745) and Yucatan (1745 - 1750), as well as Governor and Captain General of Manila, Philippines (September 1750 - ?). Before his appointment as colonial governor in anywhere of Americas and Philippines, he excelled in several battles of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1710, in a of which (developed in Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha) he saved the life to Philip V, the first Bourbon King. He is also considered the better Military Governor of Florida. During his government in Florida, he jailed to previous governor of Florida Juan de Ayala y Escobar for corruption offenses, he defeated (on several occasions) to the English who were trying to conquer Florida, on land and sea, and he repressed the piracy. He also managed to set a peace treaty and the friendship between the Appalachian Amerindians (who were the worst enemies of the colony), and the Spanish, treaty and friendship that lasted without interruption while he ruled the colony. Benavides also donated his belongings to the poor people of Florida, Yucatan, Veracruz and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands), defended the rights of indigenous people in Florida and established the first African- American slave militia in the modern United States, in Florida, to defend Saint Augustine of British attacks.
== Early year ==
Antonio de Benavides was born in La Matanza de Acentejo in Tenerife, (Canary Islands, Spain) in December 8, 1678, into a farmer family. Son of Andrés (Captain of the Provincial Militias) and María, he was the third of 8 siblings. Due to the condition of Militia officer of Andrés, at the end of 1698 stayed at his home a captain of the ''Bandera d Habana'' (Flag of Havana), who was north of the island for recruit young in the armies of other side of Atlantic. According to his first biographer, Bernardo Cólogan Fallón (September 8, 1772 - April 14, 1814), the official saw military capabilities in Benavides, so he asked his parents that they deem his enlistment as a cadet. So, in the middle 1699, before his twentieth birthday, he joined the Spanish army as a volunteer in Havana, with ninety-nine other recruits, spending three years in the Cuban city. He fought in Flanders, Seville, Tortosa (Catalonia, Spain), Almahara and Peñalba. Due his friendship with the king and his great ability as a shooter, - Philip V ordered Benavides was sent as exempt to Guard Corps –exceptional circumstance, because only the children of the nobility could access this corps–, because he and Benavides were friends and he wanted have him with him on hunting trips. The next day, Benavides was admitted to the Second Company of the Unit, which (in addition to addressing security of the King) was the most elitist military force of the Royal Armies of the King. Since then, many were the royal hunts in which Benavides participated.〔Villanueva Jiménez, Jesús: Antonio Benavides, el oficial canario que salvó la vida del Rey Felipe V en combate (in Spanish: Antonio de Benavides, the Canarian official who salved the life to King Philip V in fight). 2011.〕 He ascended to lieutenant in 1701 and, after outbreak the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), he traveled to Madrid and joined to one of the "regiments of dragoons" of the Guard Corp.〔 〔Villanueva Jiménez, Jesús. Antonio Benavides, el héroe olvidado que salvó al rey (In Spanish: Antonio Benavides, the forgotten hero who salved to king). 2011.〕
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