Leopoldo Saro

Leopoldo Saro y Marín, 1st Count of Playa de Ixdain (January 11, 1878 – August 19, 1936) was a Spanish military general. His success in the Alhucemas landing earned him the title of Conde de la Playa de Ixdain.[1]

The Most Excellent

The Count of Playa de Ixdain

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Born
Leopoldo Saro y Marín

(1878-01-11)January 11, 1878
Morón, Cuba
DiedMadrid, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Military service
Years of service1895–1932
RankGeneral
Battles/warsSpanish–American War
Second Melillan campaign
Rif War

Early life

On January 11, 1878, Saro was born as Leopoldo Sato y Marin in Morón, Cuba.

Career

In 1921 during the Rif War, Saro was posted to Morocco, where he stands out in numerous warlike actions with the generals Cabanellas, Sanjurjo and Berenguer among others, resulting in his promotion to the rank of general.

General Saro was a member of the conspiracy nucleus known as the Quadrilateral that played an important role in the Coup of Primo de Rivera in September 1923. Not a political man, he returned quickly to Africa to organize the preparations of the Alhucemas landing, where he directed with success one of the columns of attack, by whose action was promoted to General of division and the concession of Count of Playa de Ixdain on behalf of Alfonso XIII.[2]

With the arrival of the Second Republic, General Saro leaves the service and is prosecuted by a Tribunal of Political Responsibilities for his actions in the 1923 ruling, for which he was sentenced for the crime of high treason and aid, and entered in prison, to be amnestied in 1934.

Personal life

On August 19, 1936, Saro was assassinated in Madrid, Spain by Republican militia, in spite of not being proven his adherence to Franco's military uprising.[3]

References
  1. Luis Garrido González, Julio Artillo González (1994). Nueva historia contemporánea de la provincia de Jaén (1808-1950), Instituto de Estudios Giennenses, pág. 450
  2. "PP y PA se enfrentan en Úbeda por una estatua". El País. 1 September 2006.
  3. "El ferrocarril Baeza-Utiel, una obra que empezó hace medio siglo". El País. 22 February 1978.
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