José Álvarez de Toledo y Dubois, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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politician and military leader against Spanish rule in Texas
Date of Birth: 14-May-1779
Date of Death: 16-Apr-1858
Profession: military personnel, politician, diplomat
Nationality: Spain, Mexico
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About José Álvarez de Toledo y Dubois
- José Álvarez de Toledo y Dubois (14 May 1779 in Havana – 16 April 1858 in Paris) was a politician and leader of a military force against Spanish rule in Texas. Álvarez de Toledo was the son of Luis Álvarez de Toledo y Liche, a navy captain of Seville, Spain, and María Dolores Dubois.
- He was educated at the Escuela Naval de Cádiz and then joined the Spanish Navy in 1806.
- In 1808 he switched to serving in the British Navy (for a few years). Toledo was elected a representative of Santo Domingo to the Cádiz Cortes.
- However he favored independence for Spain's American possessions and was exiled in 1811.
- He next went to the United States where Secretary of State James Monroe gave him funds to try and form a revolution in Cuba. Toledo then was one of the supporters of José Bernardo Maximiliano Gutierrez de Lara in his efforts to succeed Mexico from Spain.
- Gutierrez's ancestors were among the first European Spanish settlers and colonizers in Mexico, Texas and surrounding.
- Gutierrez de Lara established himself as the first President of Texas.
- Toledo sought efforts to become the second President of Texas.
- Toledo took control of San Antonio on August 1, 1813.
- He was defeated by the Spanish Army at the Battle of Medina on August 18, 1813. Toledo fled Texas.
- In 1814 he led an unsuccessful attempt to invade Texas from Louisiana.
- They made it past the Sabine River but did not make any significant progress. In 1816 Toledo sought to reconcile himself with the Spanish authorities.
- He opposed the work of Francisco Xavier Mina that year.
- He then returned to Spain where he was an adviser to King Fernando VII.
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