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Solano López's conduct laid him open to such charges.
In the first place, Solano López's miscalculations and ambitions plunged Paraguay into a war with Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.
Thousands of others, including Paraguay's bravest soldiers and generals, also went to their deaths before firing squads or were hacked to pieces on Solano López's orders.
Solano López's attempt to leverage Paraguay's emergence as a regional power equal to Argentina and Brazil had disastrous consequences.
Argentina refused Solano López's request for permission for his army to cross Argentine territory to attack the Brazilian province of Río Grande do Sul, Undeterred, Solano López sent his forces into Argentina.
Under the treaty, these nations vowed to destroy Solano López's government.
In terms of size, Solano López's 30, 000-man army was the most powerful in Latin America but the army's strength was illusory because it lacked trained leadership, a reliable source of weapons and adequate reserves.
As the war neared its inevitable denouement, Solano López's grip on reality loosened further.
Solano López's hostility even extended to United States Ambassador to Paraguay Charles Ames Washburn.
This, of course, was forced into practice by Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López's disastrous 1865 invasion of northern Argentine territory, leading to an alliance between 1820s-era adversaries Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives ( particularly Paraguay's own ).
The Cuartel de López, a museum in Francisco Solano López's former barracks, has three rooms where bullets, cannon, stirrups, spurs, swords, and other battlefield relics are displayed.

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But little credence was given to Father Roman's statement until it was verified, in 1756, by the Spanish Boundary-line Commission of Yturriaga and Solano.
Solano López then struck at his enemy's main force in Uruguay ; he was, however unaware that Argentina had acquiesced to Brazil's Uruguay policy and would not support Paraguay against Brazil.
Paraguay was in no sense prepared for a major war, let alone a war of the scope that Solano López had unleashed.
Apart from some Paraguayan victories on the northern front, the war was a disaster for Solano López.
Despite several historians ' accounts of what happened between 1865 and 1870, Solano López was not wholly responsible for the war.
Recent results have been published in Nature Gerritsma, G. Kirchmair, F. Zaehringer, E. Solano, R. Blatt, and C. Roos, Nature 463, 68-71 ( 2010 ) in which the Zitterbewegung feature was simulated in a trapped-ion experiment This experiment impacts the hole interpretation if one infers that the physics-laboratory experiment is not merely a check on the mathematical correctness of a Dirac-equation solution but the measurement of a real effect whose detectability in electron physics is still beyond reach.
Likewise, Mission San Francisco Solano was intended to be an adjunct of Mission San Rafael but developed into a mission in its own right.
Mission San Francisco Solano was founded on July 4, 1823, and named for Francis Solanus, a missionary to the Indians of Peru born in Montilla, Spain, known as the " Wonder Worker of the New World.
Benicia was also the county seat of Solano County until 1858, when that was moved to Fairfield.
It was established as a part of Mexico's strategy to halt Russian incursions into the region, as the Mission San Francisco de Solano ( Sonoma Mission ) was for the Spanish.
Solano County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.
" The Chief was given the Spanish name Francisco Solano during baptism at the Catholic Mission, and is named after the Spanish Franciscan missionary, Father Francisco Solano.
The racial makeup of Solano County was 210, 751 ( 51. 0 %) White, 60, 750 ( 14. 7 %) African American, 3, 212 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 60, 473 ( 14. 6 %) Asian, 3, 564 ( 0. 9 %) Pacific Islander, 43, 236 ( 10. 5 %) from other races, and 31, 358 ( 7. 6 %) from two or more races.
Port Costa was founded in 1879 as a landing for the railroad ferry Solano, owned and operated by the Central Pacific Railroad.
Mission San Francisco Solano was the last of the California missions to be established, and the only one founded after Mexico's independence from Spain.
He maintained good relationships with the Native Americans of the region and was helped by his friendship with native Chief Solano of the Suisunes, who had been baptized at the mission and who lived near the city.
The mission, headed by Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares, was located near a community of Coahuiltecans and was initially populated by three to five Indian converts from Mission San Francisco Solano near San Juan Bautista.

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What ensued was a legal battle, however, because Solano Moreta alleged, among other things, that an agreement outside the bounds of his plea bargain had made him convinced to plead guilty of the charge, and also, that his legal counselour did not properly challenge some tapes of him alleguedly talking to other people, tapes which were used as evidence against Solano Moreta.

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Paraguay declared its independence from Spain in 1811 ; since then, the country has had a history of dictatorial governments, from the Utopian regime of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ( El Supremo ) to the suicidal reign of Francisco Solano López, who nearly devastated the country in warfare against the combined forces of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay from 1865 through 1870.
During the war, Solano López ordered the executions of his own brothers and had his mother and sisters tortured when he suspected them of opposing him.
Carlos Antonio López had survived mainly with caution and a good bit of luck ; Solano López had neither.
This group of exiles, based in Buenos Aires, had regarded Solano López as a mad tyrant and fought for the allies during the war.
In a gesture calculated to rewrite history and erase seven decades of national shame, Franco declared Solano López a national hero " sin ejemplar " ( without precedent ) because he had stood up to foreign threats, and sent a team to Cerro Corá to find his unmarked grave.
As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 92, 428, making it the third largest city in Solano County.
The 2010 United States Census reported that Solano County had a population of 413, 344.
Delius's next work, Appalachia, introduces a further feature that would recur in later pieces — the use of the voice instrumentally in wordless singing, in this case depicting the distant plantation songs that had inspired Delius at Solano Grove.
The strip, with artwork by Francisco Solano López told the story of his own meeting with a time traveler, who had already lived over 100 lives and has journeyed to the past to warn the protagonist of a future catastrophe.
Before reuniting Blind Illusion, Biedermann had performed earlier shows at the Sobrante Stroll as well as at the older and much larger Solano Stroll fair in Berkeley.
Solano revealed that Alan Shearer had played an influential role in arranging his return.
However it was not an unfamiliar playing position to Solano, as he had started his football career in defence and had featured at right-back for his country.
Solano rejoined former Foxes ' boss Nigel Pearson, who had recently taken over the manager's job at Hull City, signing a one-year deal.
Despite initial expectations that Solano would be with Hull City for only a single season before retiring, Solano revealed in April 2011, that he hoped that he would be able to extend his stay with the Tigers beyond the 2010 – 11 season, by combining a playing and coaching role, as Nick Barmby had done.
It was announced on 13 May 2011 that Solano had signed for Hartlepool United, having previously worked with their manager Mick Wadsworth at Newcastle.
In April 2012, the club confirmed Solano had been advised not to play for the remainder of the season because of recurring illness.
With another friar as a companion, Solano spent over a month caring for and consoling the victims, who had been sent out of the city to a small chapel in the outlying countryside.

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