José Rebolledo de Palafox y Melzi, 1st Duke of Zaragoza was a Spanish Army officer and nobleman who served in the Peninsular War. He received his title of Duke for successfully repelling the First Sie
Portrait by Francisco de Goya
Siege of Zaragoza (1808)
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The siege of Zaragoza was a bloody struggle in the Peninsular War. A French army under General Lefebvre-Desnouettes and subsequently commanded by General Jean-Antoine Verdier besieged, repeatedly stor
José de Palafox, 1st Duke of Zaragoza
…February 1847) was a Spanish Army officer and nobleman who served in the Peninsular War. He received his title of Duke for successfully repelling the First Siege of Zaragoza by the French. Marshal Jean Lannes conducted the successful Second Siege of Zaragoza. He was born in Zaragoza, Aragon, into an old Aragonese family…
Assault on Saragossa January Suchodolski, 1845
The Defence of Saragossa by David Wilkie, 1828.
Agustina Zaragoza, by Fernando Brambila