Bueno, buscando sobre la traición de los denominados "libertadores" me encontré con la historia de Don José de la Serna e Hinojosa que une a su condición de héroe la de haber tenido una vida heróica y llena de aventuras. Pongo los enlaces y destaco lo que me parece más interesante.
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He entered the army at a young age and saw his first service (as a cadet) in the defense of Ceuta against the Moors in 1784. Later he saw service against the French in Catalonia (1795), against the British under Admiral José de Mazarredo (1797), and in the second siege of Zaragoza (1809). During the latter battle he was captured and taken to France as a prisoner. He soon escaped.
Thereafter he traveled in Switzerland and the Orient, finally returning to Spain in 1811. In Spain he fought under Wellington in the Spanish War of Independence against the French, until the expulsion of the latter in 1813.

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