Felipe Alfau Mendoza Explained

Felipe Alfau Mendoza
Birth Date:1845 or 1848
Birth Place:Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Death Date:1937
Death Place:Casablanca, French Morocco
Branch:Spanish Army

Felipe Alfau Mendoza (– 1937) was a Spanish military officer. He served as the first Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco and as Captain-General of Catalonia.

Biography

Born in Santo Domingo, son to the Dominican trinitario Felipe Alfau y Bustamante and Rosa Josefa Mendoza Pineda. Leader of the first brigade of Jägers of Melilla, he was promoted to division general in 1910.[1]

After the 1912 Treaty of Fes and the entry in Tétouan of the Spanish forces commanded by Alfau on 19 February 1913, he became the first High Commissioner of the newly created Spanish protectorate in Morocco on 5 April 1913. He left the post on 15 August 1913, when he was replaced by José Marina Vega.

Later, he was appointed as Captain General of Catalonia, in 1915.[2] Alfau—who, according Francisco J. Romero Salvadó did not take the Defence Juntas seriously— was fired on 27 May 1916 in the context of the 1917 military crisis, and was replaced again by the General Marina.

He died in Casablanca in 1937.

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    1. 17 January 1916. 1916. Actualidades barcelonesas. La Ilustración Artística. Barcelona. 1777. 54–55. 1889-853X.
    2. Web site: Capitans Generals a Catalunya (1800-2003). Base Documental d' Història Contemporànea de Catalunya..
    3. Reales decretos concediendo la Gran Cruz de la Real y militar Orden de San Hermenegildo á los Generales de Brigada D. Joaquín Carrasco y Navarro, D. Pedro de la Brena y Trevilla y D. Felipe Alfau Mendoza, y la Intendente de División D. José Fenech y Codornié. Gaceta de Madrid. 39. 8 February 1908. 554–555.

    4. Real decreto concediendo la Gran Cruz de la Orden del Mérito Militar pensionada, al General de brigada D. Felipe Alfau Mendoza. Gaceta de Madrid. 20. 20 January 1910. 136.

    5. Reales decretos concediendo la Gran Cruz de la Orden Militar de María Cristina al General de división D. Antonio Tover y Marcoleta, y á los de brigada D. Ricardo Morales Yagüero y D. Felipe Alfau Mendoza. Gaceta de Madrid. 81. 22 March 1910. 633-634.