Gaspar de Vigodet

Gaspar de Vigodet (1764–1837) was a Spanish military officer who served as last Royalist Governor of Montevideo.

Early career In September 1782, Vigodet participated, as a volunteer cadet, in the Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779–1783) before being transferred to the Regiment of Murcia the following month, and which fought the following month at Almonacid and the following November at Ocana, both battles resulting in defeat for the Spanish forces.

Montevideo

In July 1810, he was appointed Governor of Montevideo, to stop the advance of the Independentist rebels forces of Río de la Plata. and member of the Liberal Regency during the Trienio Liberal. When King Ferdinand VII of Spain was restored in 1823, de Vigodet went into exile in France, from where he could only return in 1834, after the death of the King.