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    Luis Daoiz y Torres (10 February 1767 – 2 May 1808) was a Spanish artillery officer and one of the leaders of the Dos de Mayo Uprising that signalled the...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Tourné Mónica Travieso Vivian Trías Jaime Trobo Luis Tróccoli U Francisco Mario Ubillos Raúl Ugarte Daoiz Uriarte V Víctor Vaillant Carlos Varela (Uruguay)...
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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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    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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    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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    María Jerónima Daoíz y Guendica...
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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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    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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    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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    Prim, and a second-class medal in 1876 for his portrayal of the corpses of Daoiz and Velarde, heroes of the Dos de Mayo Uprising, lying in state at the Iglesia...
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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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    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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  • Team Francisco Grande 19 Albacete B Rufino Segovia 18 Toledo Rubén Moreno 18 Talavera Reina Alfonso Rivera 17 Toledo Daoiz de la Plata 16 Marchamalo...
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