José de la Serna

José de la Serna was a Spanish general and the last viceroy of Peru, from 1821 to 1824. Royalist officers made him viceroy by deposing Joaquín de la Pezuela in January 1821; he abandoned Lima to José de San Martín later that year and continued the war from Cusco. Wounded and captured at the Battle of Ayacucho on 9 December 1824, he saw the capitulation that ended Spanish rule in Peru.