Francisco Taboada y Gil

Francisco Taboada y Gil (1752–1831) was a Spanish military commander.

Early career Taboada enlisted as a Fusilier lieutenant in the Provincial Regiment of Santiago de Compostela in 1769, and was promoted to Rifleman lieutenant in 1770 and Fusilier captain in 1778. In 1786 he was appointed lieutenant colonel of his regiment and colonel in 1787, and over the following two and a half years he commanded garrisons at La Coruña and Ares. was driven from the town by the 5,000 French troops led by General Serras, who had set out from his headquarters at Benavente with the intention of threatening the frontier of the Tras-os-Montes, in the north of Portugal. General Silveira then gathered all the Portuguese militia of his district at Braganza to defend the frontier. But instead of advancing, Serras turned back, left some 400

On 23 June 1811, Taboada's troops defeated the French general Jean-André Valletaux, who was killed, at the Battle of Cogorderos.

Post-war career

Taboada was promoted to lieutenant general in October 1816.