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Lizardo Montero Flores
Peruvian military officer and politician
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Montero and the second or maternal family name is Flores.
Juan Lizardo Montero Flores (May 27, 1832 – February 2, 1905) was a Peruvian military officer and politician who held the provisional Presidency of Peru from 1881 to 1883, replacing President Francisco García Calderón, during the Chilean occupation of Peru that took place as a result of the War of the Pacific.
He was also Mayor of Lima for a brief period, in 1879.
Lizardo biography
Montero was a friend and comrade-in-arms of Miguel Grau, Manuel Ferreyros and Aurelio García y García, all of whom were known as the "Four Aces of the Peruvian Navy".
Biography
Lizardo Montero joined the Peruvian Navy in the decade of 1850.
Seven years later, aboard the frigate Apurímac, he supported Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco's coup. Between 1858 and 1862 he travelled to Spain.
In 1865, he supported General Mariano Ig