Gregorio Paz
| Gregorio Paz | |
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| Born | 1797 San Miguel de Tucumán |
| Died |
September 7, 1869 (aged 72) Buenos Aires |
| Nationality | Argentinian |
| Occupation | Soldier |
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Gregorio Paz (1797 - 7 September 1869) was an Argentine soldier who fought in the war of Independence, the war against the Peru–Bolivian Confederation and in the Argentine civil wars.
Gregorio Paz was born in San Miguel de Tucumán in 1797. He was the son of Juan Bautista Paz, who served several times as minister of the province, and his brother was the vice president Marcos Paz. Gregorio Paz joined the Northern Army in 1814, where he participated in the Battle of Sipe-Sipe. After this, he joined the army of the Republic of Tucumán and participated in the civil wars of the early 1820s. In 1823 he was appointed commander of Amaichá Valley and Colalao Valley, on the western edge of the province.
He served under the leaders Javier López and Gregorio Aráoz de Lamadrid He participated in the Battle of El Tala at the front of the reserve, and was appointed to the rank of colonel in November 1826. He organized a squadron to fight in the War with Brazil (1825-1828), but it was used in the Argentine civil war, early on participating in the Battle of Rincon de Valladares. He fought in the army of the governor of Tucumán, Javier López, in the Battle of La Tablada against Facundo Quiroga, and in the subsequent campaign in Catamarca Province. There he organized the provincial army and commanded it in a campaign against La Rioja Province, which failed due to poor organization of his forces. He returned to take part in actions in La Rioja, and was taken prisoner in 1831.
The federal governor Alejandro Heredia took his father, Juan Bautista Paz, as its general minister, and he obtained a pardon for his son. By 1835, after outstanding performance in the combat of Famaillá in January 1836, when former Governor Javier Lopez was finally defeated, he earned the post of commander of the forces of Tucumán. A few days later he occupied the north of the province of Catamarca in support of the ambitions of Heredia, who defeated the governor of that province, Felipe Figueroa, in the Battle of Chiflón. Due to that campaign, the province of Tucumán ceded more than half its area to the province of Catamarca.
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