Pedro de Alcántara Téllez Girón y Alfonso-Pimentel, 2nd Prince of Anglona (1786–1851) was a Spanish military officer during the Peninsular War and a politician.
[2] In 1805, as a captain, Anglona was aide-de-camp to Gonzalo O'Farrill, commander-in-chief of the troops that accompanied Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca on her journey to take up the Regency of Kingdom of Etruria.
[2] Following the Dos de Mayo Uprising in Madrid and its consequences on the rest of the Peninsula, in Cádiz,[note 2] in July Anglona joined General Castaños's Army of Andalusia and was given the colonelcy of the Pavia Regiment, then a very well-equipped unit with 440 splendid horses, reason for which they were entrusted with the vanguard of Castaños's Army until Andújar.
[2] The events leading up to the siege of Cádiz led to General Castaños suspending Anglona's departure from the city, and when the Duke of Alburquerque's troops arrived at San Fernando in January, Anglona was transferred to his command and given the command of the 2nd Division, tasked with the defence of the Arsenal de la Carraca,[2] a strategic naval base in the Bay of Cádiz.
[2] On 30 October 1812, he was sent by the Cortes to arrest Ballesteros who, earlier that month, had called for a military uprising in protest against Wellington's appointment as generalissimo of the Spanish Army.
[7] With the arrival of the Liberal Triennium in 1820, he replaced his brother-in-law José Gabriel de Silva-Bazán y Waldstein, Marquis of Santa Cruz, as Director of the Prado Museum until 1823, when he had to take refuge in Italy after the French invaded the country.