Felipe Ribero y Lemoine

He was born in the city of La Plata into a family belonging to the Upper-Peruvian nobility. He was the son of the doctor of laws Juan Francisco Rivera Vieyra, a native of Buenos Aires, and Bárbara Lemoine de Villavicencio, a native of Chuquisaca and daughter of the maestre de campo Juan Bautista de Lemoine. His father served as subdelegate governor and was also a lieutenant colonel of the militias.[1] In 1810, due to the separatist insurrections, his family emigrated to the province of Puno.[2] He entered, together with his siblings, the Ejército Real del Perú, and in 1812 he was admitted as a cadet in the battalion Ligero del Centro, an infantry corps in which he would carry out his entire military career in Peru and in which in 1824 he would reach the rank of commander and chief of the same in replacement of the Colonel Baldomero Espartero whom the viceroy had sent on commission to Spain. At the command of this body he fought with distinction in the Battle of Ayacucho.

After the royalist defeat and the loss of Peru, he headed to the Iberian Peninsula in the company of his former chief Espartero. He remained in the peninsula until 1828 when he returned to active service. In 1831 he was promoted to colonel and during the First Carlist War he was promoted to lieutenant general.