Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquis of Tenerife, Duke of Rubí, Grandee of Spain, (September 17, 1838 – October 20, 1930) was a Spanish general, and Governor General of the Philippines and Cuba. He was famous for his Reconcentración policy, which was the first of the similar acts known today as internment, as used later by the United Kingdom (to the Transvaal Colony), the United States (to Filipinos and General William Tecumseh Sherman's campaign), Germany (to Jews), and Russia (to the Japanese).