CABRERA, RAMON (18o6-1877), Carlist general, was born at Tortosa, province of Tarragona, Spain, on Dec. 27, 1806. He took minor orders, but the bishop refused to ordain him as a priest, telling him that the army, not the church, was his vocation. Cabrera took part in Carlist conspiracies on the death of Ferdi nand VII. The authorities exiled him, and he absconded to Morella to join the forces of the pretender Don Carlos. In a very short time he rose by sheer daring, fanaticism and ferocity to the front rank among the Carlist chiefs who led the bands of Don Carlos in Catalonia, Aragon and Valencia. He was many times wounded in the brilliant fights in which he again and again defeated the gen erals of Queen Isabella. He sullied his victories by acts of cruelty, shooting prisoners of war whose lives he had promised to spare, and not respecting the lives and property of non-combatants. The queen's generals seized his mother as a hostage, whereupon Cabrera shot several mayors and officers. Gen. Nogueras unfortunately caused the mother of Cabrera to be shot, and the Carlist leader then started upon a policy of reprisals so merciless that the people nicknamed him "The Tiger of the Maeztrazgo." He shot 1,110 prisoners of war, 1 oo officers, and many civilians, including the wives of four leading Isabellinos, to avenge his mother. When Marshal Espartero induced the Carlists of the north-western prov inces, with Maroto at their head, to submit in accordance with the Convention of Vergara, which secured the recognition of the rank and titles of i,000 Carlist officers, Cabrera held out in Central Spain for nearly a year. Marshals Espartero and O'Donnell, with the bulk of the Isabellino armies, had to conduct a long and bloody campaign against Cabrera before they succeeded in driving him into French territory in July 1840. The government of Louis Philippe incarcerated him for some months and then allowed him to go to England, where he quarrelled with the pretender, disap proving of his abdication in favour of the count of Montemolin. In 1848 Cabrera reappeared in the mountains of Catalonia at the head of Carlist bands. These were soon dispersed and he again fled to France. He did not take a very active part in the subse quent risings of the Carlists, who, however, continued to consult him. In March 1875 Cabrera presented to Don Carlos a mani festo in which he called upon the adherents of the pretender to follow his own example and submit to the restored monarchy of Alphonso XII. Cabrera, who was ever afterwards regarded with contempt and execration by the Carlists, died in London on May 24,