Antonio Arce

Antonio Vicente de Arce was a Spanish army officer and diputado for Extremadura at the Cortes of Cádiz.

Career

Arce was appointed lieutenant general by the Junta of Extremadura in June 1808. Serving under José Galluzo, the Captain-General of Extremadura, Arce prolonged the siege of Elvas until almost a month after the Convention of Cintra had been signed, and despite orders from the Junta of Seville to abandon the siege and march with his army to Madrid. The following October, as Governor of Vich, he led Spanish troops in an action at Badalona.
In April 1809, as Governor of Badajoz, he rejected General Latour-Maubourg's call to surrender the city.
In July 1809, together with Francisco Yañez de Leiva, regent of the Audiencia of Extremadura, Arce was sent to Asturias by the Supreme Central Junta to arrange for the suppressed junta general of the Principality to be reinstated. Arce was appointed captain-general of that province shortly afterwards.
On 1 January 1810, the captain-general, unable to offer much resistance to General Bonet's 7,000 troops out of Santander, evacuated Oviedo.

In 1817, Arce was appointed to the Supreme War Council.