Juan Bautista Morón
Juan Bautista Morón (born in Mendoza, Viceroyalty of Peru, 1769 - † Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1847), Argentine military man, who participated in the war of independence of his country. Biography
He was the brother of the after general Bruno Moron. He was educated in his hometown and in his youth he was a merchant.
In Buenos Aires, the first of the English invasions took place, against which he fought in the so-called Reconquest of Buenos Aires. He enrolled in the Battalion of Arribeños and participated in the Defense of Buenos Aires the following year.
In 1809 helped to suppress the revolution of Álzaga.
At the time of the May Revolution, in 1810, he was one of the most resolute supporters of the President of the First Junta, Cornelio Saavedra. This one commissioned him to travel to Cuyo to gather recruits; arriving in Mendoza, with 200 volunteers, arrested the lieutenant of governor Faustino Ansay, head of the realistic resistance in that city. He had serious problems with the first lieutenant of independent governor, colonel Jose Moldes, by the strong character of this one.
He returned to Buenos Aires towards the end of 1811, and was lieutenant colonel and second head of the regiment of Aguerridos. At the beginning of 1813 participated in the campaign to stop the depredations of the realists in the coast of the Paraná river, that finished without its participation with the battle of San Lorenzo.
In 1815 he joined the Army of the Andes. He crossed two years later to Chile and participated in the battle of Chacabuco.
He returned shortly afterwards to Mendoza; at the end of the decade he was back in the garrison of the city of Buenos Aires, in which he reached the rank of colonel. After a secondary participation in the Anarchy of the Year XX, the following year was commander of the "Legion Patricia", regiment of cavalry that had nothing to do with the regiment founded fifteen years before by Saavedra.
He was retired by the reform of Rivadavia in 1822, and devoted the rest of his life to commerce, with links especially in Cuyo. Bibliography
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