Eustoquio Díaz Vélez
Spanish-Argentine general
Eustoquio Antonio Díaz Vélez (Buenos Aires, November 2, 1782 – id., April 1, 1856) was an Argentine military officer who fought against the British invasions of the Río de la Plata, participated in the May Revolution, in the war of independence and in the Argentine civil wars.
His name was Eustoquio (Eustochio Antonio according to his baptismal certificate) but usually is cited, incorrectly, as Eustaquio.
Birth and family
His parents were Francisco José Díaz Vélez, a wealthy merchant born in Huelva, Spain who was former chapter of Buenos Aires Cabildo, and María Petrona Sánchez Araoz de Lamadrid, a native of Tucumán, Argentina from an important colonial family.
He was the seventh child of a total of twelve. Among his brothers deserve to be named the second child of the marriage, Dr. José Miguel Díaz Vélez, politician who participated in the war of independence and in the Argentine civil wars; and the eighth offspring of that union, Manuel Díaz Vélez, young lieutenant of the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers who died as a result of injuries suffered in the baptism of fire against the royalists in the Battle of San Lorenzo.
The British invasions
Diaz Velez joined the Regiment of border's Blandengues of Buenos Aires, a local militia, at a young age. He combined his military duties with trade, gathering some wealth.
During the British invasions of the Río de la Plata he assisted Santiago de Liniers and was discharged in the Regiment of Patricians, on October 8, 1806, as assistant graduate second lieutenant, taking part in the Reconquista of Buenos Aires. The following year, during the second British Invasion, distinguished himself in the Defense of Buenos Aires with the Patricians under the command of Cornelio Saavedra, and submitted the English in the "House of the Widow Virreyna (Viceroy)", between 2 and 7 July.
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