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3 unusual facts about Palafox


Juan Ramón Folch de Cardona y Ximenez de Arenós

Yet, the title of Admirals of Aragon continued by inheritance through different families, with, for instance, the Palafox family using such a title at the beginning of the 19th century.

Palafox

Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (1600 – 1659), a Spanish bishop, politician and writer in colonial Mexico

Palafoxia, a genus of flowering plants from the sunflower family


First Siege of Zaragoza

Palafox raised an additional force of 5,000 troops but these were defeated at Épila on the 23–24 June 1808 and Palafox returned to Zaragoza with only an additional 1,000 troops.

José de Palafox y Melci

Stimulated by the appeals of Palafox and of the fierce and resolute demagogues who ruled the mob, the inhabitants resolved to contest possession of the remaining quarters of Saragossa inch by inch, and if necessary to retire to the suburb across the Ebro, destroying the bridge.

Juan de Palafox y Mendoza

Palafox also raised twelve companies of militia to protect the colony against the spread of revolution from Portugal and Catalonia.

Juan O'Neylle

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.

Luis Rebolledo de Palafox y Melci, 1st marqués de Lazán

Luis Rebolledo de Palafox y Melci, 1st marqués de Lazán (June 2, 1772, Zaragoza – December 28, 1843, Madrid) was an Aragonese officer and general during the Spanish War of Independence.

Otilio Montaño Sánchez

A "Revolutionary Tribunal" was formed and Palafox and Soto presented evidence which was for the most part circumstantial.

P.K. Yonge

A plaque attesting to the honor is located at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (formerly the P.K. Yonge School), on Palafox Street in Pensacola.

Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine

These Ukrainians were part of a company commanded by "Lieutenant Shevchenko" within the Battalion Mickiewicz -Palafox of the XIII International Brigade or the Dabrowski Brigade, which crossed the Pyrenees after the fall of Catalonia, and who participated in the resistance against Nazism.


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