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 basic failing was that he did not recognize the changes that had occurred in the region since Francia's time.

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.

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.

Flores won backing from Brazil and, this time, from Argentina, who supplied him with troops and weapons, while Berro made an alliance with the Paraguayan leader Francisco Solano López.

The earliest significant experiences in his artistic development came, Delius later asserted, from the sounds of the plantation songs carried down the river to him at Solano Grove.

Some people believe that Eliza Lynch was responsible in inducing Francisco Solano López to start the Paraguayan War and that she provoked him to carry on the futile and bloody war against Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil.

Two detachments were sent in pursuit of Solano López, who was accompanied by 200 men in the forests in the north where he received news of the considerable Brazilian forces that were closing in on him.

His official eldest son ( not really his ), Francisco Solano López ( 1826 – 1870 ), succeeded him as president after his death.

Perón appointed him Rector of the University of Buenos Aires in March 1974, though the president's death that July led to Solano Lima's retirement from public life, days later.

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.

Greg Solano is also a writer with his short story " From Baghdad to Santa Fe " winning second place in a local writing contest earning him the title of published author.

General aviation airports in Solano County which are open to the public are the Nut Tree Airport and Rio Vista Municipal Airport.

The case also remains open in the city of Vallejo, as well as in Napa County and Solano County.

The old rituals were revived by President Estrada, when an arriving diplomat disembarked from his car at General Solano Street and boards what is called a chariot, a luxurious open jeep where the occupant stands on a red carpet holding onto a stout bar while progressing up J. P. Laurel Street to the Palace grounds.

In Humahuaca, every day at precisely 12-noon, on the city-hall bell-tower, heavy copper doors slowly open and a life-size animated wooden, dramatic-looking statue of San Francisco Solano appears for about two minutes and gives his benediction to the silent crowd amassed on the village plaza.

Each year the event has a theme, which was being " Arte in Todos los Sentidos " ( Art in All Senses ) in 2009. The events are held in various locations, such as City Museum, the Guerrero Garden, the Zenea Garden and the Rosalio Solano Theatre as well as the various plazas around the city center.

Plants commonly found at vernal pools in California include Downingia and lupine species, yellow pansies, several sweet-scented clovers, a variety of goldfields, button parsleys, yellow and bright lavender monkeyflowers, star lilies, yarrow, and endangered grasses such as Solano grass.

Among the boxers he beat during that streak were some top ranked fighters such as Julio Soto Solano, Pepillo Valdez, Lee Cargle and Lorenzo Tiznado, among others.

The Monticello Dam with Lake Berryessa, Putah Diversion Dam with Lake Solano, and associated water distribution systems and lands are known collectively as the Solano Project, which is distinct from other federal water projects in California such as the Central Valley Project.

There are plans to construct a deep-water port at Bahía Solano.

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.

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.

He also sent his son Francisco Solano to Europe to buy guns.

Born in 1826, Francisco Solano López became the second and final ruler of the López dynasty.

There, Solano López admired the trappings and pretensions of the French empire of Napoleon III.

Lynch bore Solano López five sons, although the two never married.

She became the largest landowner in Paraguay after Solano López transferred most of Paraguay and portions of Brazil into her name during the war, yet she retained practically nothing when the war ended.

She buried Solano López with her own hands after the last battle in 1870 and died penniless some years later in Europe.

Solano López consolidated his power after his father's death in 1862 by silencing several hundred critics and would-be reformers through imprisonment.

Yet Solano López would have done well to heed his father's last words to avoid aggressive acts in foreign affairs, especially with Brazil.

Observers sharply disagreed about Solano López.

Others saw Solano López as a paranoid megalomaniac, a man who wanted to be the " Napoleon of South America ", willing to reduce his country to ruin and his countrymen to beggars in his vain quest for glory.

However, sympathetic Paraguayan nationalists and foreign revisionist historians have portrayed Solano López as a patriot who resisted to his last breath Argentine and Brazilian designs on Paraguay.

Since the 1930s, Paraguayans have regarded Solano López as the nation's foremost hero.

Solano López accurately assessed the September 1864 Brazilian intervention in Uruguay as a slight to the region's lesser powers.

Consistent with his plans to start a Paraguayan " third force " between Argentina and Brazil, Solano López committed the nation to Uruguay's aid.

When Argentina failed to react to Brazil's invasion of Uruguay, Solano López seized a Brazilian warship in November 1864.

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.