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5 unusual facts about viceroy


40th Infantry Division Cacciatori d'Africa

The Cacciatori d’Africa and 65 Infantry Division "Grenadiers of Savoy" (Granatieri di Savoia), came under overall command of Amedeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta, who was Viceroy and Governor-General of AOI.

65th Infantry Division Granatieri di Savoia

The Granatieri di Savoia and 40 Infantry Division "Hunters of Africa" (Cacciatori d'Africa) came under overall command of Amedeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta, who was Viceroy and Governor-General of AOI.

Alonso de Castillo Solórzano

Shortly afterwards he joined the household of the Marquis de los Vélez, Viceroy of Valencia, and published in quick succession three clever picaresque novels: La Niña de los embustes, Teresa de Manzanares (1634), Las Aventuras del Bachiller Trapaza (1637), and a continuation entitled La garduña de Sevilla y anzuelo de las bolsas (1642).

Kashmir Committee

Within a year of the Treaty of 1848, Lord Lawrence, the then Viceroy addressed a severe remonstrance but without any effect.

Marquesses in the United Kingdom

In the late 19th and the 20th century many Viceroys of India were appointed as marquesses after their term of office.


Acatlán de Juárez

In the year of 1550 the area for the first time attained the first level of a municipality, under the power of the viceroy of the New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza.

Agustín de Ahumada

He was succeeded by the Audiencia, presided over by Francisco de Echávarri, until the arrival of the next viceroy, Francisco Cajigal de la Vega, who was promoted from governor of Havana.

Airspeed Viceroy

The Airspeed Viceroy started the race from RAF Mildenhall, England, but after several reliability problems including with the mainwheel brakes, it was withdrawn from the race at Athens.

Aitchison College

The college was formally inaugurated by the Viceroy, the Earl of Dufferin and Ava on 3 November 1886.

Anthony Blake

Anthony Richard Blake (died 1849), Irish lawyer, administrator and 'backstairs Viceroy of Ireland'

Antonio Sebastián de Toledo, 2nd Marquis of Mancera

In other actions, the viceroy inspected the fortifications of San Juan de Ulúa, near Veracruz, and suspended work on the drainage system of Mexico City and the construction of a convent in Guanajuato for lack of money.

Ariyanatha Mudaliar

Ariyanatha Mudaliar was the Vellala Delavoy (General) and the able Chief Minister of the greatest of the Nayaka domains established by the Vijayanagar viceroy and later ruler of Madurai, Viswanatha Nayak (1529–64).

Avenida Rivadavia

Upon the designation of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata by the Spanish Empire in 1776, the "Road of the Kingdom of Heaven" leading into Buenos Aires from the east was designated a Camino Real, a "Royal Road" fit for a Viceroy, and afforded improvements and some security.

Ayotlán

On October 26 the same year, personally Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza besieged El Penol with a powerful army and gave them so fierce battle that nearly ended with them.

Bach Xuan Nguyen

After the death of Lê Văn Duyệt, the viceroy of southern Vietnam in 1832, the emperor Minh Mạng, who was involved in a power struggle with Duyệt, appointed Nguyễn to investigate the viceroy's administration.

Battle of Saraighat

Meanwhile, Mughal reinforcements in the shape of war-vessels and imperial officers (Omraos) reached Ram Singh, along with the Mughal admiral, Munnawar Khan and the Mughal Viceroy Shaista Khan, sent the message that Ram Singh was sent to fight the Assamese, not make friends with them.

Battle of Torroella

The viceroy of Catalonia, don Juan Manuel Lopez Pacheco Acuña Giron y Portocarrero, marquis of Villena duke of Escalona, who was also the Captain General of the army, had deployed along the banks of the river Ter practically all the marching troops he could muster to oppose the strong French expeditionary corps, led by the French Marshal duke of Noailles, who wanted to capture Gerona.

Cave, Lazio

It is especially known for the Treaty of Cave, signed on September 12, 1557 by plenipotentiaries of Pope Paul IV and Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples.

Congress Poland

However, in time the situation changed and he granted the viceroy, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, almost dictatorial powers.

Cristóbal de Moscoso y Montemayor

Cristóbal de Moscoso y Montemayor also known as the Marquis de las Torres, was the Viceroy of Navarre in the 1700s.

David Banderali

At 17, he attracted the attention of Princess Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, wife of Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy, and was appointed to their court .

De Güemes

Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo (1740-1799), Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain

Juan Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas, 1st Count of Revillagigedo (1681-1766), Spanish general, governor of Havana, captain general of Cuba, and viceroy of New Spain

Diego Duque de Estrada

Duque de Estrada saw a good deal of fighting both with the Turks and the Venetians; but he is mainly interesting because he was employed by the viceroy in the conspiracy against Venice.

Francisco Antonio de Echávarri

At the beginning of the reign of King Charles III (1759), Echávarri, being then president of the Audiencia, asked to be relieved of the duty because he was much occupied with the other duties of acting viceroy and captain general of the colony.

Francisco Javier de Balmis

In Mexico City, he had to convince the viceroy, José de Iturrigaray, but he did so, and the viceroy had his son vaccinated.

Frederic Villiers

A world cruise followed in which he visited British India where he dined with the Viceroy, Lord Lytton at Simla, travelling on to Sydney, Tasmania, Auckland, Honolulu and San Francisco, and in 1882 was in Egypt to cover the Anglo-Egyptian War; he was present at Battle of Tel-el-Kebir.

Frederick Hamilton

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902), Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India

George Curzon

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), former Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary

Gilbert Elliot

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1845–1914), also known as Viscount Melgund, British politician, Governor General of Canada, and Viceroy of India

Guillén de Castro y Bellvis

At one time a captain of the coastguard, at another the protégé of Benavente, viceroy of Naples, who appointed him governor of Scigliano, patronized by Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna and Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Castro was nominated a knight of the order of Santiago in 1623.

History of Lobos

These positions were set up by the order of Viceroy Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo and were named Chascomús, Ranchos, Monte, Lobos, Navarro, Areco and Rojas.

History of the University of Dhaka

Following demands by Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur and others, in 2 February 1912 Viceroy Lord Hardinge proposed that a new University should be established in this partition of Bengal.

Huguang Province

Zhang Zhidong became the viceroy of Huguang in 1896, following the First Sino-Japanese War.

International Commission for the piercing of the isthmus of Suez

The International Commission for the piercing of the isthmus of Suez (Commission Internationale pour le percement de l'isthme des Suez) was the commission consisting of various European experts convened in 1855 by Ferdinand de Lesseps as instructed by the viceroy of Egypt Muhammad Sa'id in order to ascertain the feasibility of a canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea and to evaluate the best alternative for such a canal.

Johnny Nobody

Johnny Nobody is a 1961 UK drama film brought to the screen by Viceroy Films Limited under the production of John R. Sloan with executive production from Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli.

José Francisco Gana

Gana with his battalion captured the City of Huaras with the whole garrison, and, as a consequence, the provinces of Trujillo, Lambayeque, and Piura pronounced for the insurrection, leading to the whole northern portion of Peru being wrestled from the rule of the viceroy.

Koilwar Bridge

It was inaugurated by the Viceroy Lord Elgin, who said, “... this magnificent bridge was exceeded in magnitude by only one bridge in the world”.

María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osorio Barba

Through the intercession of Viceroy Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo, she married José Jerónimo López de Peralta de Villar Villamil in September 1794.

Miguel de Azcuénaga

Supported by the viceroy Nicolás Antonio de Arredondo, he collected $8,000 and provided 500 cattle to mine rocks from the Martín García Island for this work.

Montagu Stopford

In December 1944 he and his fellow corps commanders Christison and Scoones were knighted and invested as KBE by the viceroy Lord Wavell at a ceremony at Imphal in front of the Scottish, Gurkha and Punjab regiments.

Muslim presidents of Indian National Congress

Indeed, it was a Scotsman, Allan Octavian Hume, who brought about its first meeting in Bombay, with the approval of Lord Dufferin, the then-Viceroy.

Paddy Daly

On 19 December 1919, Daly along with Dan Breen led an abortive ambush, at Ashtown railway station near the Phoenix Park, on the British Viceroy, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Supreme Commander of the British Army in Ireland, Lord French, as he returned from a private party which he had hosted the previous evening at his country residence in Frenchpark, County Roscommon.

Pedro Melo de Portugal

Pedro de Melo de Portugal y Vilhena (29 April 1733 in Badajoz – 15 April 1797 in Buenos Aires) was a Spanish soldier and politician, who served as viceroy in the Rio de la Plata.

Princess Helene Dolgoruki

Sometime around 1843-1847 General Fadeyev was appointed Imperial Councillor to the Viceroy of the Caucasus (perhaps First Viceroy Count (later Prince) Mikhail Vorontsov although Blavatsky says "Woronzoff"), and the family moved from Saratov to an even more imposing castle at Tiflis.

Salabat Jung

He was appointed as Naib Subahdar (Deputy Viceroy) to his elder brother, Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung II, the Prime Minister of Mughal Empire, with the title Salabat Jung.

Sher Ali

Sher Ali Afridi, ex-police, who killed Lord Mayo, Viceroy of India

Surendranath Law College

The name was later changed to Ripon College, named after the British Viceroy George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon.

Thado Dhamma Yaza

Thalun: Viceroy of Prome (r. 1620–1628), King of Burma (r. 1629–1648)

The Golden Coach

The Viceroy hints of his intention to give the coach to his mistress, the Marquise, but has decided to pay for it with public funds, since he plans to use it to overawe the populace and flatter the local nobility, who enthusiastically look forward to taking turns parading in it.

Tomás Guido

Guido then worked as a diplomat for San Martín during the effort to liberate Peru, he negotiated with the Spanish Viceroy at Miraflores before San Martín declared Peruvian Independence on July 28, 1821.

Tzadik

While the Patriarchs lived righteously as shepherds, Joseph remained holy in Egypt, surrounded by impurity, tested by Potiphar's wife, captive in prison, and then active as viceroy to Pharaoh.

Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger

His father was a General, his grandfather the 1st Baron Chelmsford was twice Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom, and his elder brother Frederic Thesiger had a distinguished career as colonial governor, became Viceroy of India and was created Viscount Chelmsford.


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