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    baptised the same day as "Luis Gonzaga Guillermo Escolástica Manuel José Joaquín Ana y Juan de la Soledad Daoíz Torres". Daoíz lived for much of his childhood...
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    art in Segovia, Spain. Designed by Aniceto Marinas, it is a memorial to Luis Daoiz y Torres and Pedro Velarde y Santillán, two Spanish artillery officers...
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    of Monteleón, who joined the uprising. Two officers of these troops, Luis Daoíz de Torres and Pedro Velarde y Santillán are still commemorated as heroes...
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    artillery barracks against the French. Velarde, along with his comrade Luís Daoíz de Torres and most of his soldiers, fell in the day's heavy fighting in...
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    working in the defense of the Artillery Battery at Monteleón, led by Luis Daoíz y Torres and Pedro Velarde y Santillán. Her father was purported to fire...
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    Independence. The plaza features a monumental arch in its centre dedicated to Luis Daoíz and Pedro Velarde, two soldiers fallen to the French army on 2 May 1808...
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    garrisoned and passive. Only the artillery barracks at Monteleón under Captain Luis Daoíz y Torres, manned by four officers, three NCOs and ten men, resisted. They...
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    Hospital de la Caridad. Lope de Rueda, writer. Fernando de Herrera, poet. Luis Daoíz, military officer, hero of the Spanish War of Independence (Peninsular...
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    burial in a common grave. The Toothpuller Distributing Soup The Death of Luis Daoíz y Torres The Triumph of Bacchus Brief biography at Galería Pintores Españoles...
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  • The standard bearer El abanderado Eusebio Fernández Ardavín History. Luis Daoíz y Torres, Pedro Velarde y Santillán, Dos de Mayo Uprising, Peninsular...
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    guided a Spanish contingent over the Rock in the 1704 Franco-Spanish siege Luis Daoíz (1767–1808), one of the heroes of the Dos de Mayo Uprising Demographics...
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    won third prize at the Exhibition with his depiction of the deaths of Luis Daoíz and Pedro Velarde; again in 1866 for Fernando Valenzuela in prison, and...
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    doi:10.3989/arbor.2011.749n3011. ISSN 0210-1963. Cruz, Luis de la (18 April 2011). "Calle de Daoíz: pupitres con historia". Somos Malasaña. eldiario.es...
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    escort to convoys of galleons. During these voyages artillery officer Luis Daoiz de Torres, who would later lead the Spanish forces against French troops...
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    day that the war began, May 2, 1808. He came to the aid of the officers Luis Daoiz and Pedro Velarde who were out of ammunition in the artillery park of...
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  • 7-December 5 - Siege of Roses (1808) May 2 - Pedro Velarde y Santillán and Luis Daoíz y Torres May 29 - Francisco Solano (soldier) Vincente Maria de Acevedo...
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    de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, where he studied with Carlos Luis de Ribera. Much of his career would be spent in Madrid. His murals include...
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    María Jerónima Daoíz y Guendica...
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    and partner Mariano Benlliure. In the field of arms is the monument to Daoíz and Velarde, Aniceto Marina's work. By the same artist is the sculpture...
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    Asistencia Municipal de Urgencia y Rescate), had set up a field hospital at the Daoiz y Velarde sports facility.[citation needed] Bystanders and local residents...
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  • José de Herrera Luis Alberto de Herrera Luis de Herrera Nicolás Herrera Luis Hierro Luis Hierro Gambardella Luis Hierro López I Juan Idiarte Borda Alberto...
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  • the Dos de Mayo Uprising and the events that led to the death of Captain Daoíz and Captain Velarde The Flemish Farm (1943) – British war drama film about...
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    Bilbao Eguía; Hacienda, a don José Larraz López; Industria y Comercio, a don Luis Alarcón de la Lastra; Agricultura, a D. Joaquín Benjumea Burín; Educacion...
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    Anouilh, Louis Aragon, W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett (awarded in 1969), Jorge Luis Borges, Heinrich Böll (awarded in 1972), Alejo Carpentier, René Char, Lawrence...
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  • Goalscorers Goals Team Joselu 26 Compostela Manu Barreiro 21 Racing Ferrol Luis Fernández 21 Deportivo B Jorge Rodríguez 20 Racing Ferrol Nacho Fernández...
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    nominations in 1967 with a single joint nomination with Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. In total, the Nobel Committee received 112 nominations for 69 writers...
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    here Luis Noval, el cabo que murió en Melilla, [in:] El Comercio 28.09.09, available here Diego Quirós Montero, Primer centenario del monumento a Daoiz y...
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    65. Rafaela Josefa Ortiz de Rozas y Ruiz de Briviesca 66. María Jerónima Daoiz y Guendica 67. María Lutgarda de Hevia y Navarro, marchioness of la Victoria...
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  • Musée Archéologique, Dijon (url) Antonio Sola (1787–1861), 1 sculpture : Daoíz and Velarde, Plaza del Dos de Mayo, Madrid (url) Cristoforo Solari (1489–1520)...
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    hundred Spanish civilians and militarymen, including the artillery captains Daoiz and Velarde, and infantry lieutenant Ruiz. The revolt in Madrid inspired...
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