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6 unusual facts about Juan O'Neylle


Juan O'Neylle

He is best known as one of the commanders during the Spanish defeat at the Battle of Tudela.

He was buried in the Catedral-Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragoza.

On November 23, 1808, the Spanish army of Andalucía regrouped and prepared to give battle under the command of Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén with Palafox as the second in command.

The French had build a pontoon bridge from Almozara to the opposite bank of the Ebro in order to facilitate communication between Gazan's camp and that of the remaining French forces.

This bold attack forced the occupying French forces to abandon Tudela and O'Neylle was personally responsible for destroying a French column in the area around Nardués.

This engagement was to become known as the disastrous Battle of Tudela.


Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire

Juan O'Donojú, lieutenant general of the Spanish armies, Great Cross of the Orders of Charles III y San Hermenegildo.

Enrique del Moral

Enrique del Moral Dominguez (born Irapuato, Guanajuato, January 21, 1905 - died Mexico City, June 11, 1987) was a Mexican architect and an exponent of the functionalism movement, a modernist group that included Mexican artists and architects such as José Villagrán Garcia, Carlos Obregón Santacilia, Juan O'Gorman, Juan Legarreta, Carlos Tarditti, Enrique de la Mora and Enrique Yanez.

Lionel Pries

Beginning in the late 1920s and continuing to 1942, Pries travelled to Mexico every summer and regularly interacted with leaders in Mexican art including William Spratling, Frederick W. Davis, Rene d'Harnoncourt, Juan O'Gorman, and others.


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