Calle del General Pardiñas
Ramón Pardiñas-Villardefrancos y Núñez de Taboada (Santiago de Compostela, 1802 – Maella, 1838), field marshal of the Isabelline army, died at the Battle of Maella, defeated by the Carlist Ramón Cabrera during the First Carlist War. In 1890 the Regent granted the title of Marquess of Casa-Pardiñas to his nephew Ramón Sanjurjo Pardiñas, as the general had died without descendants.
A street opened with the Marquess of Salamanca’s Ensanche from 1860, it runs north to south between calle de Alcalá and avenida de América, crossing the Lista and Goya neighbourhoods. It was so recent then that the 1889 guide to Madrid’s streets dismissed it in three words: “of modern opening.”
The name honours Ramón Pardiñas-Villardefrancos y Núñez de Taboada, a Galician who entered the army in 1816 at barely fourteen. The First Carlist War raised him high on the Cristino side: brigadier for defending Oviedo in 1836, field marshal in 1838.
His end came on 1 October 1838 at the Battle of Maella, in Zaragoza. For six hours the troops of Ramón Cabrera destroyed his division: of the five thousand infantry he commanded, some thirteen hundred survived, and he was left dead on the field.
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