Feliciano Canaveris

Feliciano Canaveris (1813–1843) was an Argentine military officer, who participated in the civil wars in Argentina between the unitarios and the federales.[1] He was discharged from the Federal army in 1835,[2] being murdered years later in the Banda Oriental by order of Manuel Oribe.[3]

Capitán

Feliciano Canaveris
Personal details
Born
Feliciano Canaveris Denis

June 7, 1813
Buenos Aires, Argentina
DiedJanuary, 1843
Tacuarembó, Uruguay
Military service
Allegiance Argentine Confederation
Unitarian Army
Branch/serviceArgentine Navy
Uruguayan Army
Years of serviceConfederación Argentina
1833-1835
Ejército Libertador (Unitarios)
1839-1843
RankCaptain
UnitCompañía de Artillería de Mar
Battles/warsArgentine Civil War
Uruguayan Civil War
French blockade of the Río de la Plata

Career
List of Argentine officers to join Rivera's ranks

He was born in Buenos Aires, the son of José Canaveris and Agustina Denis, belonging to a patrician family of the city. He completed his elementary studies in Buenos Aires, and was graduated from the Argentine Navy on October 2, 1833, serving as Second-lieutenant of artillery in the Compañía de Artillería de Mar,[4] a Naval artillery corps created by decree on December 1, 1830.[5]

Feliciano Canaveris made his entire military career in the Argentine Navy. In 1834 he was promoted to Lieutenant,[6] and was dismissed for political reasons on April 16, 1835.[7] His dismissal from the ranks of the Federal Army was by order of Juan Manuel de Rosas.[8]

Possibly Canaveris had political leanings towards the Unitarian Party. His brother Juan Manuel Canaveris belonged to sector of the Federal Party, known as "Lomos Negros", allied to Juan Ramón Balcarce.[9] In 1840 the authorities had given an arrest warrant against Feliciano Canaveris,[10] accusing him of wanting to leave Buenos Aires to join in the troops of Juan Lavalle.[11] After borrowing a horse, he escaped towards Entre Ríos with the intention to get to Uruguay and then to exile in Montevideo. He managed to cross the Uruguay River aboard a flatboat, and traveled in direction of Tacuarembó, where was ambushed and arrested by a group of soldiers.[12] He dies executed by order of General Manuel Oribe on January 1843 near Tacuarembó, Uruguay.[13]

Feliciano Canaveris possibly enlisted or was about to enlist in the army of General Fructuoso Rivera, serving in the ranks of the Unitarian army in Montevideo since 1839.[14] He was promoted to the rank of Captain time after his death. His persecution and subsequent murder is cited in Rosas y sus opositores, a history book published by the journalist José Rivera Indarte.[15]

His cousin Eustaquio Canaveris Rodríguez, a pulper who had served in the Batallón de Voluntarios Rebajados de Buenos Aires, was tried and sentenced to death as a secondary participant in the crime of a parish priest of federal tendency, in an incident that occurred in 1842 in the town of San Miguel del Monte.[16]

Family

Feliciano Canaveris was baptized on June 8, 1813 by Manuel V. Erézcano Azcuénaga, presbyter of the Cathedral of Buenos Aires, being his godmother his aunt Encarnación Canaveris.[17]

Several members of his family were dedicated to the military career, including his brothers Juan Manuel Canaveris and José María Canaveris, who participated in the Argentine Civil War. His grandfather Juan de Canaveris (1748-1822) was a Piedmontese colonial official, whose ancestors had inhabited various points of Western Europe and North Italy.[18]

His sister Patricia Canaveris goddaughter of Juan José Echeverría (brother Vicente Anastasio Echevarría), was born on St. Patrick's Day, 1811.[19] Through his mother Feliciano Canaveris was a descendant of Anton Denis, an Irish immigrant, born in Limerick, Munster,[20] who had arrived in the Río de la Plata from Portugal in 1595.[21]

His mother Agustina Denis, died in 1825 in Buenos Aires, and his father José Canaveris in October 1837 in the same city.[22]

Feliciano Canaveris was a cousin of Francisco Crespo y Denis, an distinguished military officer, who participated in the Argentine War of Independence.[23]

References
  1. Montevideo: Apuntes históricos de la defensa de la república, Volume 1, Francisco Agustin Wright
  2. Registro Oficial, Volume 14, Buenos Aires (Argentina : Province)
  3. Rosas y sus opositores;, José Rivera Indarte
  4. Nómina de oficiales navales argentinos, 1810-1900, Pablo E. Arguindeguy
  5. Recopilación de las leyes y decretos promulgados en Buenos Aires ..., Volume 2, Pedro de Angelis, Manuel Trelles
  6. Registro Oficial, Volumen 13, Buenos Aires (Argentina : Province
  7. Registro oficial de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (Argentina : Province)
  8. Registro Oficial, Volumen 14, por Buenos Aires (Argentina : Province)
  9. Amalia ; novela histórica americana, José Mármol
  10. Indice del archivo del departemento general de policia, desde el ..., Volumen 2, Argentina
  11. La metamorfosis de San Isidro (2),1580-2004, Municipalidad de San Isidro, Jan 1, 2005
  12. Vida política de Juan Manuel de Rosas, a través de su correspondencia, Volumen 7, Julio Irazusta, Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rosas
  13. Rosas y sus opositores, Nacional de Montevideo
  14. Lista de Jefes, Oficiales y Ciudadanos Argentinos (PDF), Revista Oficial (1838-1839) - Anáforas
  15. Rosas y sus opositores, José Rivera Indarte
  16. Archivum XXXII (PDF), Junta de Historia Eclesiástica Argentina
  17. Bautismos 1811-1819, Iglesia Nuestra Señora de La Merced
  18. Memorie storico-diplomatiche, Delfino Muletti
  19. Bautismos 1801-1811, Parroquia Nuestra Señora de La Merced
  20. El censo más antiguo. La Gaceta.
  21. Censo nacional de población y vivienda, 1980, República Argentina
  22. Registro oficial (de la provincia de Buenos Aires)., Buenos Aires province
  23. Revista de la Junta de Estudios Históricos de Mendoza, Junta de Estudios Históricos de Mendoza (Argentina)
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