Pedro Caro Sureda, 3rd Marquis of La Romana

Pedro Caro Sureda, 3rd Marquis of La Romana (2 October 1761 – 23 January 1811) was a Spanish Army officer and nobleman who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Born at Palma de Mallorca to a family of Balearic nobility, La Romana was educated in Lyon, France.

[4] King Charles IV, bullied and pressured by Napoleon, agreed in 1807 to provide a veteran infantry division to bolster the Grande Armée in Germany.

La Romana was given command of this Division of the North and spent 1807 and 1808 performing garrison duties in Hamburg and later Denmark under Marshal Bernadotte.

Their defection reduced Bernadotte's Hanseatic Army to a string of glorified coastal garrisons, severely sapping Napoleon's left (north) wing in the contest with Austria for mastery over central Europe in 1809.

With this force, La Romana fought some rearguard actions for General John Moore's retreat westwards to Corunna.

The pledge of the troops of the Marquis de La Romana (1808)
General Romana (centre) with the Spanish Division of the North, sent to Denmark to fight against the British, pledging to turn against France and side with Britain, 1808. Oil painting by Manuel Castellano (c. 1870), Museo del Prado .
Spanish troops under General de La Romana embarking for Spain, 1808 . Oil painting by Juan Rodríguez Jiménez (1809), Museum of Romanticism (Madrid) .