Andrés Saliquet Zumeta, Marquis of Saliquet (21 March 1877 – 23 June 1959) was a Spanish soldier who participated in the failed military coup against the Second Republic, which gave rise to the Spanish Civil War. During the war he took charge of the Army of the center, a unit that contained troops of the Nationalist faction from the Tagus River to Madrid, Guadarrama and the Universal Mountains. Early life and career Saliquet entered the Toledo Infantry Academy on 29 August 1893, and graduated on 24 June 1895. Shortly afterward, he participated in the Cuban War of Independence and then in the Moroccan Wars in which he rapidly rose through the ranks. During the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he was appointed civil governor of Santander (1928). On 8 February 1930, he was appointed military governor of Cádiz. In 1923, he was promoted to brigadier-general, and by 1929, he was major-general. After the proclamation of the Second Republic, the military government of Cádiz was dismissed. Spanish Civil War He went into retirement with Azana's reforms but joined the conspiracy that had been organized by General Emilio Mola, who commissioned him to take command of the VII Organic Division. For that reason, on 19 July 1936, he forcibly deposed General Molero and proclaimed a state of war in the Province of Valladolid and took control of the VII Organic Division and all its dependent territories. For that reason, he was one of the soldiers that the Spanish government discharged from the army on 22 July 1936 to try to end the military rebellion. He was a member of the National Defense Board that is formed in Burgos, a kind of provisional government that initially governed the rebel zone. He was part of the group of generals who elected Francisco Franco as head of the government and as Generalissimo of the Armies. He continued to command the VII Division and later reconverted the unit into VII Army Corps. On 4 June 1937, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the newly-created Army of the center. The unit covered the front from the Alto Tajo to the Cáceres Front, passing through Guadarrama, the Madrid Front and Toledo. At the end of the war, in 1939, both he and his subordinate units participated in the Madrid Victory Parade. On 17 May, he was promoted to lieutenant-general. Serrano Suñer described him as "a nice, honest, good-natured man,