Francisco Gil de Taboada, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish sailor and politician
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About Francisco Gil de Taboada
- Francisco Gil de Taboada y Lemos (in full Francisco Gil de Taboada y de Lemos y Villa MarÃn) (September 24, 1733 in Santa MarÃa de Soto Longo, Galicia, Spain – 1809 in Madrid) was a Spanish naval officer and colonial administrator in South America.
- He was briefly viceroy of New Granada in 1789, and from March 25, 1790 to June 6, 1796 he was viceroy of Peru.[1] After his viceregal service he returned to Spain, where he became a member of the governing junta after King Ferdinand VII was forced to abdicate by Napoleon.
- He was director general of the Spanish Royal Navy.
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