Adrián Woll
French soldier of fortune (1795–1875)
Adrián Woll (December 2, 1795 – February 1875) was a French-Mexican military officer and politician. He served alongside Antonio López de Santa Anna during his presidency, as well as during the Mexican War of Independence, the Texas Revolution, the Mexican–American War, the Reform War. He distanced himself from Santa Anna after he declared himself dictator of Mexico. He later fought alongside the French in the Second French intervention in Mexico and helped install the Second Mexican Empire.
Early life and French military service
Woll was born on December 2, 1795, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He pursued education for a career in the military. He was a lieutenant of a lancer regiment in the First French Empire. By 1815, he was an adjutant major of the National Guard, and during the Bourbon Restoration in France, he travelled to the United States and brought letters to Winfield Scott. He stayed in North America and joined the revolutionaries in the Mexican War of Independence, by suggestion of Scott.
Mexico
1816–1836: Mexican War of Independence and Texas Revolution
Woll joined the revolutionaries in the Mexican War of Independence on July 3, 1816, serving as a lieutenant general under Martín Francisco Javier Mina y Larrea.
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