Saliquet entered the Toledo Infantry Academy on 29 August 1893, and graduated on 24 June 1895. Shortly after he participated in the Cuban War and later in the Moroccan Wars, where he rapidly rose through the ranks. During the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he was appointed Civil Governor of Santander (1928), on 8 February 1930 he was appointed Military Governor of Cádiz.