Juan José Guesi

Juan José Guesi was a soldier who fought in the Argentine Civil Wars on the Unitarian side.

On 27 September 1831 at Miraflores, Catamarca a Federalist force led by Nazario Benavídez and Julián Cuenca defeated the force commanded by Sergeant Major Guesi.^[1] Guesi had about a hundred men. In the engagement, 18 died and 22 were taken prisoner, including Guesi.^[2] In retaliation for the shooting of Captain Juan de Dios Melián^{[lower-alpha 1]} and his assistants that General Gregorio Aráoz de Lamadrid had ordered on 28 September 1831, Guesi was executed on the orders of Colonel Juan de Dios Vargas on 30 September 1831.^[1] Another source says he was killed in San Miguel de Tucumán on 5 November 1831, and that when he resisted he was bayoneted to death.^[3]

References

Notes

1. Melián had been sent by General Rudecindo Alvarado to discuss a proposed armistice.^[1]

Citations

1. Yaben 1939.
2. Zinny 1882, p. 487.
3. Rivera Indarte 1853, p. 295.

Sources

• Rivera Indarte, José (1853). Rosas y sus opositores. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
• Yaben, Jacinto R. (1939). "Biografías argentinas y sudamericanas". Buenos Aires: Revisionistas. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
• Zinny, Antonio (1882). Historia de los gobernadores de las provincias argentinas desde 1810 hasta la fecha: Provincias centrales y andinas. C. Casavalle. Retrieved 12 November 2012.