MARQUEZ, niiir'kAs, I.E0NAltoo (c.1820-7).
Alexiea II general. Ile served against the United States in the .11exican 'War, and was a prominent supporter of Santa Anna in the revolutionary movement of 1849. After the fall of that dictator Alarquez espoused the cause of Aliramon and Zuloaga against Juarez. In 1862 lie took up the cause of the French, and rendered important service to the establishment of the power of Maximilian, by whom lie was placed at the head of the regular army, and was, in 1804. given the mission to Constantinople. Ile returned in 1860, and a year later, when the French withdrew. he undertook to organize a native army to support the Empire. Ile joined Alaximilian at QuerMaro, but broke through the besiegers and made his way to Mexico City for the purpose of organizing a force to relieve the Emperor. Finding this impossible, lie conceived the phut of setting up WI independent government of his own in the Southern States, with Puebla as its capital. Ile
was defeated before he coo ld reach that city and returned to Alexico. where he was besieged by Gen Tiu• city was captured. June 21. 1867, and ..Nlarquez. after remaining in concealment for several 111011i hIS, made his way to \'er;i Cruz, and then to I lava na. lie was expressly excluded from the amnesty of 18711..\s a soldier and politician his motives were less marred by personal ambition than those of most of the leaders of Mexican affairs. Ile was fanatical and cold-blooded in his disregard of human life, receiving the nickname of Tiger of for the wholesale executions which followed one of his guerrilla victories in 1859. For an account of Marquez's military career consult liancroft. "History of Mexico." vols. v. and vi., in his Ilistory of the Pacific Stutes (San Francisco, 18'82-90).