Jaime Milans del Bosch
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Jaime Milans del Bosch | |
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1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt | |
Alma mater | Toledo Infantry Academy |
Relations | Joaquín Milans del Bosch (grandfather) Francisco Milans del Bosch (great great grandfather) |
Jaime Milans del Bosch y Ussía (8 June 1915 – 26 July 1997) was a lieutenant general in the
Biography
Milans del Bosch was born into a noble family whose members had held many senior military ranks. He was the grandson of Joaquín Milans del Bosch. Jaime Milans del Bosch is reported to have repeatedly boasted of how many of his ancestors had participated in coups d'état.
In 1934, he entered the
After the war, he held successive positions as military attaché in Spanish embassies in Latin American countries, including Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Paraguay.[1]
Promoted to brigadier general in 1971 and major general in 1974, he was appointed commander of the III Military Region (headquartered in Valencia) in 1977, at the rank of lieutenant-general.
Coup d'état of February 1981
In 1981, Milans del Bosch was the only senior army commander who supported the
After the televised message of King
Court-martial and dishonorable discharge
Milans del Bosch was court-martialled on 8 March 1981. On 3 June 1982, he was sentenced to 26 years and 8 months imprisonment and expelled from the army. Barely nine years later, in 1991, he was pardoned and released due to advanced age. He never expressed remorse for his involvement in the coup.
He returned to live in his native Madrid, where he died of a brain tumor in 1997.[2] He is buried at the Alcázar of Toledo.[3]
On 17 September 2018, after the planned exhumation of
References
- ^ a b Nick Caistor (1997-09-29). "Obituary: General Jaime Milans del Bosch". The Independent. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- Prisa. 27 July 1997. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- La SextaNoticias (in Spanish). 24 September 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- El Diario(in Spanish). Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- ^ "Podemos también quiere exhumar a los "traidores" Milans del Bosch y Moscardó del Alcázar de Toledo". El Independiente (in Spanish). 31 August 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- Vocento. Retrieved 4 July 2019.