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unusual facts about Isidro de la Cueva - Benavides



Carlos de Aragón de Gurrea, 9th Duke of Villahermosa

It was at that time, around 1677, he got reinforcements from the Spanish Governor of the Duchy of Milan, Gaspar Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke of Osuna, receiving thus the military Tercio of Valladares commanded by Field Marshal Isidro de la Cueva - Benavides.

Luis A. Eguiguren

He won the Peruvian presidential election of 1936, but his victory was ignored by the Congress and the then-President Oscar R. Benavides, who claimed that he had won with votes of the APRA.

Óscar R. Benavides

President Pardo sent Benavides to Paris (1916) as an observer of World War I; he was a witness at the Battle of Verdun.

When he returned to Peru on April 8, 1912, he was received as a national hero, and in his honor a parade took place in Lima, along the Jirón de la Unión to the Plaza de Armas.


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