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    Captain Luis Daoiz y Torres (10 February 1767 – 2 May 1808) was a Spanish Army officer who was one of the leaders of the Dos de Mayo Uprising which resulted...
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    Spain. Designed by Aniceto Marinas, it is a memorial to Luis Daoiz y Torres and Pedro Velarde y Santillán, two Spanish artillery officers who fell fighting...
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    defense of the Artillery Battery at Monteleón, led by Luis Daoíz y Torres and Pedro Velarde y Santillán. Her father was purported to fire against the...
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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 which...
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    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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    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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    who joined the uprising. Two officers of these troops, Luis Daoíz de Torres and Pedro Velarde y Santillán are still commemorated as heroes of the rebellion...
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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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    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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    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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    Saavedra y Torres 406. Luisa de Villanueva y Zayas 407. María Manuela de Godoy y Armendáriz 408. María de los Ángeles del Álamo y Algaba 409. Inés Blake y Tovar...
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