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'''Justo José Arteaga Cuevas''' (1805-1882) was a Chilean Major General who participated throughout Chile's conflicts during the 19th-century as well as being the [[List of commanders-in-chief of the Chilean Army|Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army]] from 8 April to 18 July 1879.<ref name="xxx" >((Cite web|url = http://www.ejercito.cl/?cje&id_comandante=51|title = G.D.D. Justo Arteaga Cuevas. Comandante en Jefe en Campaña.|access-date = October 10, 2015|author = Ejército de Chile))</ref>

==Early years==
Justo was the son of Domingo Arteaga Rojas, who was later a lieutenant colonel in the [[Chilean Army]], and Ana Josefa de las Cuevas. His father, who was a great friend and aide to the liberator [[Bernardo O'Higgins]], made him enter the Army with the rank of cadet when he was just 9 years old.<ref name="MPG">((harvnb|Pelayo González|))</ref> However, his military career was suspended by the royalist triumph at the [[Battle of Rancagua]], resulting in the return of the colonial system, thus beginning the [[Reconquest (Chile)|Reconquest]].

During the period known as the [[Patria Vieja]], he finished his youth training and in 1819 he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant of the "Grenadiers of the Honor Guard" Regiment which was in charge of escorting the supreme director. In 1820 he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant and the following year, to first lieutenant.

==Pronouncement against the Government==
On 28 January 1823 the pronouncement of his unit against the government of Bernardo O'Higgins broke out.<ref name="MPG"/> The then lieutenant Justo Arteaga was the second assistant of the Argentine colonel [[José Luis Pereira]], commander of the Guard of Honor, so he followed his chief and stuck to the opposition flags. He was ordered to inform General O'Higgins of the order of the Argentine officer, this order was the prohibition of O'Higgins to approach the Guard of Honor barracks. Bernardo O'Higgins needed these troops to prevail over the [[Cabildo de Santiago]], so he marched towards the barracks at the Convent of San Agustín. The march was carried out together with his hostess and even with Justo Arteaga's father. Lieutenant Arteaga, aware of the danger his father and the supreme director were running, told them that there was a group of riflemen who were going to open fire on them when they approached the barracks. O'Higgins was furious and informed Colonel Pereira of his immediate presentation to him. Colonel Pereira accepted and O'Higgins appeared at Justo Arteaga's side, neutralizing the actions of the riflemen in the tower.

==Chiloé Campaign==
In 1823 he was promoted to captain and in January 1826 the second campaign against [[Chiloé]] took place, culminating in the capture of the island, after a resistance by the forces of Antonio de Quintanilla. Captain Arteaga was awarded a medal to the "Liberating Army of Chiloé". On the island of Chiloé he participated in the attack on the batteries of [[San Carlos de Ancud]], in the [[Battle of Pudeto]] and in the [[Battle of Bellavista]]. He also participated in the [[Treaty of Tantauco]] on 19 January 1826, in which the royalist general [[Antonio de Quintanilla]] handed over the island of Chiloé to the Chilean forces, after 7 years of resistance.<ref name="MPG"/>

==Against the Pincheira brothers==
In 1828 the Government of Chile was fighting against the [[Pincheira brothers]], who were an infamous gang of thieves and rustlers who acted between 1818 and 1832 in Chile and [[United Provinces of the Río de la Plata|Argentina]]. The then captain Arteaga participated in the expedition against this group, supporting the government of [[Francisco Antonio Pinto]]. On 20 September 1829 he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant Major and was assigned to the Army of the South, remaining under the orders of General [[Joaquín Prieto]], becoming his right-hand man and participating the following year in the [[Battle of Ochagavía]].

==Chilean Revolution of 1851==
In 1851, due to his political beliefs, he was called to qualify services and had to leave the country, but he returned to take part in the revolution, joining the forces that defended the freedom of suffrage and criticized the electoral fraud that led to the presidency led by [[Manuel Mont Torres]]. However he had betrayed the liberal cause by not showing up for the fight in the [[Alameda de Santiago]], known as the ((ill|Sociedad de la Igualdad|es)). He fled to [[Cobija]], [[Bolivia]] where he learned of the uprising in [[La Serena, Chile|La Serena]], under the command of [[José Miguel Carrera Fontecilla]], son of the war hero of the same name. Carrera's son appointed him commander of the Army of Coquimbo but Cuevas was defeated in the [[Battle of Petorca]] from an enemy army that was twice his size. Returning to La Serena, he carried out a white coup that deprived Carrera of command and sent him to prison, thus dividing the egalitarian officers.

La Serena was bombarded by both the Chilean army and by a British squad that, at the request of President [[Manuel Montt]], acted by capturing the two rebel steamers ''Arauco'' and ''Firefly'', since the Chilean navy was completely under sail and useless against its opponents. In addition, from [[Copiapó]], a column of 1,000 Argentine mercenaries advanced who worked in the mines of at [[Chañarcillo]], Copiapó and [[Huasco]] and who had fled the tyranny of Rosas and were armed by [[José Joaquín Vallejo]] who was an agent of Montt's government in [[Atacama]].

The Serenense forts lasted for so long thanks to the engineering of Justo Arteaga. In combat he remained fierce, as did Carrera, who was allowed to leave his cell to fight alongside the others. The artillerymen were mostly miners from [[Brillador]] and other mines in the [[Coquimbo province]], among them, some veterans of the [[War of the Confederation]], for which they were called "yungayes".

When he realized that the chances of success for the cause were slim, he decided to take a ship and go into exile. He narrowly escaped execution by firing squad.<ref name=":0">((Cite book |last=Farcau |first=Bruce W. |title=The Ten Cents War: Chile, Peru, and Bolivia in the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-275-96925-7 |location=Westport, CT |pages=51 |language=en))</ref> Meanwhile, the officers and the troops disavowed their boss and continued the fight until 31 December 1851, when they withdrew to [[Copiapó]], where the revolution had broken out under the command of the merchant Bernardino Barahona.<ref>((Cite web |url=http://letras.s5.com/avo220213.html |title=Copia archivada |access-date=August 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624000711/http://letras.s5.com/avo220213.html |archive-date=June 24, 2013))</ref>

A portion of stragglers was intercepted by a squad of Argentine mercenaries. Among them was a Chilean priest who interceded between the sides, managing to lay down their arms. Once, deprived of them, the [[gaucho]]s slaughtered more than forty miners, until a Chilean cavalry patrol managed to stop them. Among the Argentine leaders were [[Carlos Tejedor (politician)|Carlos Tejedor]], [[Chacho Peñaloza]], [[Juan Crisóstomo Álvarez]] and [[Felipe Varela]].

==Chincha Islands War==
He was reinstated again in the Army in 1862, as a colonel. In 1865 he was appointed by Supreme Decree Commander General of Engineers. In 1866 he commanded the I Division of troops that defended [[Valparaíso]] in the [[Chincha Islands War]].

==War of the Pacific==
In 1874 he was promoted to Major General, and on 8 April 1879 he was appointed [[List of commanders-in-chief of the Chilean Army|Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army]] in the Field during the [[War of the Pacific]].

However, his performance during his tenure in office until 18 July 1879 had been a source of controversy. The appointment of him at 74 years of age was unusual and Arteaga was considered by W. Sater to be "senescent".<ref name="WS">((harvnb|Sater|2007|p=253))</ref> At this point, he was described as florid, overweight, senile, and had no other qualities but strong political backing.<ref name=":0" /> Gonzalo Bulnes maintained that his appointment was not correct:
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|text=for a fast, audacious company, of violent initiative, like the one that the Prats Ministry yearned for, because companies of that kind do not harmonize with old age, and Arteaga was an old man who had heard the shots of the War of Independence, and attended to his last war duties, half a century earlier.<ref name="GB1"/>((rp|241))
))

But not only his age but also his attachment to daily politics and the defense and support of his family:
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|text=Arteaga had the conditions of his age: he was susceptible, not at all inclined to listen to other people's advice. He mistrusted any collaboration, considering it a depression of his authority. In his opinion, he and his children were enough. He wanted to keep the treasure of attributions intact. Conferred by the Army Ordinance as General-in-Chief on campaign, and removed from himself any influence that could undermine it.
))

[[William F. Sater]] also criticized Arteaga, stating:<ref name="GB1">((harvnb|Bulnes|1911|))</ref>((rp|243))
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|text=Justo Arteaga Cuevas was sclerotic, apathetic, easily confused, and unable to think for himself. ...unable to formulate an overall strategy for the ground campaign.
))Erasmo Escala Arriagada succeeded Arteaga after he resigned in July 1879.<ref>((Cite book |last=Urbina |first=Lucas Lucio Venegas |title=Un colchagüino en la guerra: Recuerdos del Ejército en la campaña al Perú y Bolivia. Incluye folleto Chile para los Chilenos |publisher=El Marino |year=2019 |isbn=978-956-9757-07-5 |location=Santiago |pages=35 |language=es))</ref><ref>((Cite book |title=Historia del Ejército de Chile: El ejército en la Guerra del Pacífico : ocupación de Antofagasta y campaña de Tarapacá, 1879 |publisher=Estado Mayor General del Ejército |year=1879 |pages=130 |language=es))</ref>

==References==
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===Bibliography===
* ((Cite web| last= Pelayo González| first= Mauricio| url= http://www.laguerradelpacifico.cl/Heroes%20y%20Biografias/Chile/Justo%20Arteaga.htm| title= General Justo Arteaga Cuevas| access-date= October 10, 2015| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170815120548/http://www.laguerradelpacifico.cl/jac.htm| archive-date= August 15, 2017))
* ((Cite book|last=Bulnes|first=Gonzalo|author-link=Gonzalo Bulnes|title=Guerra del Pacífico. vol. 1: De Antofagasta a Tarapacá |url= http://www.memoriachilena.cl/archivos2/pdfs/mc0007407.pdf|format=PDF| date= 1911 |editor= Sociedad Imprenta y Litografía Universo|location=Valparaíso|pages=745))
* Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín; ''Historia de los Diez años de la administración de don Manuel Montt'', Chapter I, Imprenta Chilena,Santiago, 1862.
* Sociedad Patrimonial Pedro Pablo Muñoz Godoy; "El Sitio de La Serena y la Revolución de los Libres; A las Glorias del Pueblo de Atacama y Coquimbo de 1851", Varios autores, Andros Impresores, La Serena, 2013.
* ((Cite book|last=Sater|first=William F.|title=Andean Tragedy: Fighting the War of the Pacific, 1879–1884|publisher=Lincoln and London|editor = [[University of Nebraska Press]]|date=2007|url=https://issuu.com/cristiangonzalezpuebla/docs/235019480-sater-2007-andean-tragedy|isbn=978-0-8032-4334-7 ))

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