Juan Miguel de Vives

In 1794 he capably led a division against the French in the War of the Pyrenees. He led his division at the battles of Boulou and the Black Mountain in the eastern Pyrenees. In 1795, José de Urrutia, the captain general of Catalonia gave him the command of 20,000 migueletes which, together with volunteers raised in Valencia by the Marquis of La Romana, expulsed the French forces from Cerdanya, in the Catalan Pyrenees. In 1796 he was appointed military governor of Cartagena, and in 1799 he was appointed Captain General of Mallorca. ==Peninsular War==

On 30 June 1808, soon after the outbreak of the war, his second-in-command, the Marquis del Palacio, who had taken up the post of governor of Minorca earlier that month, joined the open mutiny of the Aragonese and Catalan battalions of the corps of 10,000 men stationed in the Balearic Islands, garrisoned at Majorca and Minorca, demanding to be transferred to Barcelona to take up arms against the French, finally set sail from Port Mahon to mainland Spain. The Marquis del Palacio was appointed Captain General of Catalonia shortly thereafter, which this time he accepted, taking up his new posting ten days after leaving Majorca. His predecessor, and former second-in-command of the Balearic Islands, the Marquis del Palacio then accused Vives of being a Bonapartist. Vives was appointed captain general of Old Castile, post he held at his death, the following year, at Ciudad Rodrigo. ==Commentary==

When writing about his Peninsular War service, historian David G. Chandler called Vives "an aged, overcautious, Anglophobic booby". ==References==