Alejandro O'Reilly
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Lieutenant-General Alejandro O'Reilly, 1st Count of O'Reilly, KOA was a Spanish Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Louisiana from April to December 1769. Born in Ire
Portrait by Francisco Goya
Street in Cádiz, which honours the memory of Marshal Alejandro, Conde de O'Reilly (1723, Baltrasna, County Meath, Ireland – 1794 in Bonete, Spain.
Juan Mackenna
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Brigadier Juan Mackenna was an Irish-born, Chilean military officer and hero of the Chilean War of Independence. He is considered to have been the creator of the Corps of Military Engineers of the Chi
Alejandro O'Reilly
…family. His wife, Doña Rosa de Las Casas, was the sister of Luis de Las Casas, who served as governor of Cuba in the 1790s. O'Reilly was an uncle of Juan MacKenna, a hero of the Chilean War of Independence, as well as a cousin of Hugo Oconór, the founder of Tucson, Arizona, governor of Spanish Texas in the late…
Juan Mackena
His granddaughter Elena Mackenna Serrano de Errázuriz Oil on canvas Exequiel Plaza