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Also Known As El Gran Capitán • Gonzalo de Córdoba
Born September 1, 1453 • Córdoba • Spain
Died December 1, 1515 or December 2, 1515 • Granada • Spain
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Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd duke de Alba, oil painting by Sir Antony More, 1549; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
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Spanish soldier and statesman
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco
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Bernardo de Gálvez
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Manuel de Godoy
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Diego Duque de Estrada
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prime minister of Spain
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Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, count de Aranda
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Ramon Cabrera, detail of a lithograph
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Arsenio Martínez Campos
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prime minister of Spain
Gaspar de Portolá
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Francisco de Bobadilla
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