Juan Manuel de Cagigal

Juan Manuel Cagigal de la Vega y Martínez Niño[1] (1757–1823) was a Spanish army commander and Captain general of Cuba, the third member of his family to hold that post.

[1] From 1804 he served as governor of New Andalusia Province (capital, Cumaná) in eastern Venezuela, resigning in 1809 and turning down the governorship of Chile, the following year.

After repeated requests to be allowed to resign, Cajigal was able to hand over command to Pablo Morillo in April 1815 and early the following year he was back in Spain,[1] where he was stationed at the barracks in El Puerto de Santa María.

He requested to be allowed to resign due to health problems and he was substituted by Nicolás de Mahy in 1821 and retired to Guanabacoa, where he died in 1823.

[1] His cousin, the Venezuelan mathematician Juan Manuel Cajigal y Odoardo, orphaned at an early age, went back with him to Spain in 1816 to study Mathematics in Madrid.