Juan Pignatelli

Juan Domingo Pignatelli de Aragón y de Gonzaga, 6th Duke of Solferino, 19th Count of Fuentes (27 January 1757 – 9 November 1819) was a Spanish Army officer and nobleman.

Early career After studying at the Real Seminario de Nobles de Madrid, during the American Revolutionary War.

In 1793, during the War of the Pyrenees, he was promoted to field marshal

He was promoted, in October 1802, to lieutenant general in the same promotion as other notable Spanish military commanders of the Spanish armies during the Peninsular War, including the Duke of the Infantado, Manuel Lapeña, Juan Carrafa, Francisco Castaños, Francisco Taranco, Francisco Eguía, and Arturo O'Neill, among others.

Peninsular War

1808 In May, Lieutenant general Pignatelli was still governor of Zamora and on 30 September, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Spanish forces in Old Castile.

Later that month, Castaños dismissed Pignatelli for having retreated from Logroño before Ney's troops and abandoning all his guns at the foot of the mountains around Nalda. and a brigade of six battalions under Cartaojal,

1810 In November, the Regency absolved Pignatelli, by then no longer governor of Zamora,