16 Facts About Miguel Negrete

Jose Miguel Pascual Negrete Novoa, commonly known as Miguel Negrete was a 19th-century Mexican Major General.

Miguel Negrete was the son of Cayetano Negrete and Aparicia Novoa.

Miguel Negrete participated together with Leonardo Marquez and Jose Joaquin Ayesteran on December 22,1860, in the Battle of Calpulalpan.

Miguel Negrete was defeated by liberal troops commanded by Jesus Gonzalez Ortega in the plains of Calpulalpan, State of Mexico.

Miguel Negrete retired to private life thanks to an amnesty offered by the Juarez government.

Miguel Negrete joined the republican army and under the orders of General Ignacio Zaragoza, both covered themselves with glory in the Battle of Las Cumbres and the Battle of Puebla, coming to be considered as the second hero of said battle by defending Fort Loreto.

Miguel Negrete was then captured by the French along with Jesus Gonzalez Ortega, Felipe Berriozabal and Porfirio Diaz.

All of them would be captured on the way to Veracruz and, after that, taken prisoners to France but Miguel Negrete managed to escape.

Miguel Negrete took part in the capture of the cities of Monterey and Saltillo.

Miguel Negrete managed to take the forts of Loreto and Guadalupe, but was apprehended and sentenced to death.

In 1879, during the Porfiriato, Miguel Negrete published a manifesto addressed to the nation, criticizing and accusing Porfirio Diaz of betraying the Constitution of 1857.

Miguel Negrete took up arms against President Porfirio Diaz in the states of Queretaro, Guanajuato and San Luis Potosi.

Miguel Negrete joined the Sierra Gorda socialist plan but was again defeated.

Miguel Negrete died on January 5,1897, in Mexico City.

Miguel Negrete's remains were interred at the Rotunda of Illustrious Persons on May 5,1948.

On December 5,2007, in the Plenary Hall of the Legislative Assembly of the Congress of Puebla, the name of the general poblano "Miguel Negrete" was written in gold letters.