Isidro Barrada

Isidro Plácido Del Rosario Barrada y Valdés (Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, 6 October 1782 – Marseille, France, 14 August 1835) was a Spanish general sent to Mexico in 1829, eight years after Mexican independence in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to reconquer the country for the Spanish Crown.

After the surrender of Cartagena de Indias, he was transported to Cuba, where he reached the rank of Colonel in 1824 and Brigadier General in 1828.

Spanish Brigadier Isidro Barradas arrived secretly in Havana from Spain on June 2, 1829.

Barradas was apparently a disagreeable person, quarreling with Admiral Laborde and generally disliked by the troops under his command.

The rallying point was the Isla de Lobos (Veracruz), but the weather made it difficult to reassemble.

Admiral Laborde had to offer one ounce of gold to any man who would swim to shore for fresh news about the state of defense the country was in.

On the 31st the first fight with Mexican forces occurred, at Los Corchos, 20 km southeast of Pueblo Viejo, Veracruz.

Meanwhile, Santa Anna had been preparing for the expedition, and had assembled 1,000 infantrymen, 500 cavalry, four pieces of artillery and a fleet of 3 brigs, 4 schooners and 5 boats.

On September 11, 1829, Barradas, cut off from supplies and with his troops weakened by disease, signed the Capitulation of Pueblo Viejo with Santa Anna and General Manuel Mier y Terán.

Defeated in the Battle of Tampico, Barrada traveled to New Orleans and then went to New York, from where he headed to Le Havre aboard the Packet boat Francisco I.