Eugenio Eulalio Palafox Portocarrero

Eugenio Eulalio Palafox y Portocarrero, 7th Conde de Montijo and Count of Teba (1773–1834) was a Spanish military officer during the Peninsular War. Early career Elected honorary academician of the Real Academia de la Historia in 1794, he was prevented from reading his inaugural speech, which proposed presenting the nobility as a moderating power on the absolutist monarchs, when Godoy got wind of it. Having initially been banished to Toledo, he finally ended up in Granada, where he joined that city's Regiment of Provincial Militias as a lieutenant colonel. Peninsular War 1807 Attached to the 1st Division of the Provincial Grenadiers at Cádiz, Montijo formed part of the auxiliary Spanish corps that aided General Junot's Army of the Gironde in invading Portugal.