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His cousin was Spanish General Valeriano Weyler. [1] Demetrio Quirós Weyler graduated from the Infantry School of Toledo in the mid-1850s after deciding to join the Spanish Army. In 1856 he served as Second Commander in the 35th Infantry Regiment of Toledo's Second Battalion. [2] On August 1, 1856, he was appointed Lieutenant colonel. [3]
Stationed at Oviedo in 1803, he was promoted to field marshal following the outbreak of the Peninsular War in 1808. [1] Leading one of the brigades of the Acevedo's Asturian division, incorporated in the Army of Galicia, under Joaquín Blake, he participated at the Battle of Espinosa, where the whole division was routed following the loss of their commanding officers, [2] when Acevedo and ...
In 1904, the United Spanish War Veterans was created from smaller groups of the veterans of the Spanish–American War. The organization has been defunct since 1992 when its last surviving member Nathan E. Cook a veteran of the Philippine-American war died, but it left an heir in the Sons of Spanish–American War Veterans, created in 1937 at ...
With Teodorico Quirós, the architect and landscape painter, he began to paint with greater dedication. In 1954, he returned to England to continue his studies. There, he found the answer to his artistic concerns in abstract expressionism , a moment in which artists channelled their feelings into works emphasizing plastic elements such as ...
The timeline of events of the Spanish–American War covers major events leading up to, during, and concluding the Spanish–American War, a ten-week conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States of America.
The U.S. Navy commissioned the gunboat at Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines as USS Quiros (Gunboat No. 40) on 14 March 1900. Assigned to duty supporting the U.S. Army in the Philippine–American War, Quiros operated along the east coast of Luzon, carrying troops, providing fire support, blockading rebel villages, and making hydrographic surveys.
Grandees of Spain (Spanish: Grandes de España) are the highest-ranking members of the Spanish nobility. They comprise nobles who hold the most important historical landed titles in Spain or its former colonies. Many such hereditary titles are held by heads of families, having been acquired via strategic marriages between landed families.
The Spanish–American War, 1898. Combined Books. ISBN 0-938289-57-8. Severo Gomez Nunez (1998). La guerra Hispano-americana. Editorial Almena S.L. Spencer C. Tucker, The Encyclopedia of the Spanish–American and Philippine–American Wars (2009) Cuban Battlefields; Benjamin R. Beede (1994). The War of 1898 and U.S. Interventions. Routledge.