| Francisco Gómez de Terán y Negrete | |
| Birth Date: | 13 April 1760 |
| Birth Place: | Madrid, Spain |
| Death Place: | Madrid, Spain |
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Francisco de Paula Gómez de Terán y Negrete, 4th Marquis of Portazgo, also written as Portago,[1] (1760–1816) was a Spanish military commander.
As a cadet, he saw action during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
See main article: Peninsular War.
At the start of the war, the Junta de Galicia promoted him to field marshal.[2]
With Blake's Army of Galicia he fought at Rioseco (July 1808), his 4th Division[3] numbered some 5,800 troops, almost half of whom were raw recruits.[4]
The following September, Blake's Army of the Left moved on Bilbao, where Portazgo's 4th Division routed General Monthion's small garrison on 20 September 1808,[5] the 4th Division stayed in the city for just under a week, withdrawing to the hills twenty miles away as Marshal Ney approached with two divisions.[4] He again occupied the city, 11–24 October after having driven out General Merlin's division,[4] before withdrawing again to fight at Zornoza.[2]
In March 1809, now commanding the 3rd Division of Cuesta's Army of Extremadura, Portazgo fought at Mesas de Ibor[2] and at Medellín,[5] at the latter, with only three battalions, the remaining three having been left behind to garrison Badajoz.[6]
At Talavera (July 1809), again forming part of Cuesta's Army of Extremadura, four battalions,[7] of the six that made up his 3rd Division, stampeded at the start of the battle.[6]
In October 1809, he was appointed second-in-command of Blake's Army of Catalonia. Following Blake's resignation,[8] he took interim command of that army from mid-November to January 1810, when he resigned his command due to bad health.[2]