Ángel Ortiz Monasterio

Ángel Ortiz Monasterio Irizarri (January 15, 1849 – March 28, 1922) was a Mexican vice-admiral who contributed greatly to the Mexican Navy. He was also notable for his participation in the Ten Tragic Days of the Mexican Revolution.

Early life Monasterio was born in Mexico City, on January 15, 1849, during the Mexican-American War and his parents fled Mexico looking for a better life in Spain, where his mother was from, since at that time Mexico had lost more than half of its territory.

He studied as a military sailor in Spain, where he was an outstanding student and military man, serving the Spanish Navy in the military operations of the Glorious Revolution and in the assault on Cartagena, under the orders of General Juan Prim. During these years, the Third Carlist War and the Ten Years' War would plague Spain and events which Monasterio would participate in. For his actions, he received the Civil Order of Alfonso XII and the Medal of the Campaign of Cuba with pins from 1871, 1872 and 1873. He attended the various revolutionary movements of 1869 and 1870, later going on to direct the campaign on the island of Cuba in the fighting at Paso de San Fernando, Laguna de los Indios and the assault on the entrenched camp of Curaíto. however General Lauro Villar was wounded and Madero had deal with Victoriano Huerta, who during the Ten Tragic Days deceived the troops of Vice Admiral Ortiz Monasterio by simulating a false war, which would end with the death of Francisco I. Madero and José María Pino Suárez and killed by Aureliano Blanquet, with which Vice Admiral Ortiz-Monasterio refused to recognize Huerta's government, for which he was apprehended.

He was a member of the Military Judicial Power, in addition to being commander of the Zaragoza Corvette School, which was the first training ship in Mexico, and also made the first circumnavigation trip made by a Mexican Navy ship. He decided to participate in Mexican politics; launching himself as a deputy to the Congress of the Union (from September 16, 1882 to September 15, 1908), having belonged to Legislatures XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XX, XXI, XXII and XXIII, occupying the direction of War and Navy. He finally died on March 28, 1922.

Burial Ortiz Monasterio was buried in the in Mexico City; however, in a campaign promoted by the Secretariat of the Navy and by the PAN senator Sebastián Calderón Centeno, it is being discussed whether or not his remains should be transferred to the Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres.