José Manuel Pareja

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Vice Admiral José Manuel de Pareja y Septien (Lima, 8 February 1813 – Valparaíso, 28 November 1865) was a Spanish naval officer, who commanded the Spanish forces during the Chincha Islands War (1864-1866).

Biography

Youth and early career

Pareja was born in Lima in 1813, the son of Brigadier José Antonio Pareja (1757–1813) and Josepha Septien. After the independence of Peru (1821), his family returned to Spain and he joined the Spanish navy. He made the corresponding ships of his class and traveled almost the entire planet, arriving in one of them to the Philippines. In 1831 he made the instructional cruise aboard the frigate Perla, which was at that time the midshipman school ship.

The Chincha Islands War

Pareja was sent to the Pacific in 1864 to relieve Admiral Luis Hernández-Pinzón Álvarez, whose seizure of the Chincha Islands was disapproved in Madrid.

On January 27, 1865, he signed the

• Casto Méndez Núñez

External links

• Numancia (includes short biography)
• War Ensign used by Spanish Navy ships between 1785-1931
• Ensign used by Navy ships belonging to the Ferrol Naval Department 1732
• The "Revista Naval" page published in Ferrol in Spanish for the "Armada Española"