CABRERA, Ramon, Carlist general: b. Tortosa, Catalonia, 31 Aug. 1806; d. Went worth, England, 24 May 1877. He was brought up for the clerical profession, for which, how ever, he was unfitted by his love of pleasure and dissipation. When civil war broke out be tween the partisans of Don Carlos and those of the Queen Isabel II, the priests became the most zealous champions of Don Carlos, and their enthusiasm acted so powerfully upon the impetuous spirit of young Cabrera, that he joined in 1833 a small band of guerrillas. He fought with singular ferocity, which rose to fury, when, 16 Feb. 1836, upon the order of the Queen and of Mina, General Nogueras put to death Cabrera's aged mother and his three help less sisters. Cabrera took vengeance upon all the Christinists who fell into his hands. His enemies treated him like a wild animal, and hunted him, after he had laid waste Aragon, Valencia and Andalusia, from one place to another. After a temporary defeat at Torre Blanca he eventually took Morella. Hence in 1838 Don Carlos created him Count de Morella, and at the same time lieutenant-general, and in this capacity Cabrera continued to fight for the cause of the Pretender, and for what he con sidered the cause of the priesthood and the Church, until 1840, when he was compelled to flee to Paris. By order of Louis Philippe he
was arrested and consigned to the fortress of Ham, but was soon set free. In 1848 the French revolution filled Cabrera with the most sanguine expectations; which, however, were doomed to disappointment, as on his arrival in Catalonia he was but indifferently received, and on 27 Jan. 1849, he was severely wounded at Pasteral, although he succeeded in making good his escape to France. In August of the same year he took up his abode in London, where he married a rich English woman. When Al phonso XII was proclaimed King of Spain in 1875 Cabrera advised the Carlists to submit to him. Consult Valras, 'Don Carlos VII et Ramon Cabrera,' translated from the Spanish (Paris 1875) ; Dias and Cardenas, (Galena de Espaiioles celebres contemporineos,) Vol. I (Madrid 1841) ; Valle Inclin,