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 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.

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.

The world's largest ferry, the Solano, later joined by the even larger Contra Costa, carried entire trains across the Carquinez Strait from Benicia to Port Costa, from whence they continued on to the Oakland Pier.

* F – Berkeley / Adeline Street ( was also extended on former Southern Pacific interurban tracks on Shattuck Avenue beyond Dwight Way and through the SP's Northbrae Tunnel, terminating at Solano Avenue and The Alameda )

Dixon is a city in northern Solano County, California, United States, located from the state capital, Sacramento.

Benicia is a waterside city in Solano County, California, United States.

The 2010 United States Census reported that Solano County had a population of 413, 344.

Elmira is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Solano County, California, United States.

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Pizarro also revealed that his decision was largely influenced by the advice of his national team team-mate Nolberto Solano, who played in England with Newcastle, and West Ham United, as well as Owen Hargreaves, who at the time also played for Bayern Munich.

Travis Air Force Base is a United States Air Force air base under the operational control of the Air Mobility Command ( AMC ), located three miles ( 5 km ) east of the central business district of Fairfield, in Solano County, California, United States.

In 1998, Solano became the first Peruvian to play in England when he signed a contract with Newcastle United for £ 2, 480, 000.

Solano returned to Newcastle United in August 2005 for a fee believed by the BBC to be £ 1. 5 million.

Solano playing for West Ham UnitedSolano signed a one-year contract with West Ham United in August 2007.

Solano returned to England where he trained with Colchester United and with Newcastle, before, on 22 January 2010, signing for Leicester City until the end of the season.

Solano with Hartlepool United F. C.

It was announced on 13 May 2011 that Solano had signed for Hartlepool United, having previously worked with their manager Mick Wadsworth at Newcastle.

On 2 August, Solano scored in a friendly against Sunderland, rivals of his former club Newcastle United, and scored his first league goal for Hartlepool on 17 September at home against Bury.

According to United States law records, Solano Moreta controlled drug trafficking at the Virgilio Dávila residential since 1992.

At the request of the Fathers, the Holy See permitted the celebration in the United States of the feasts of St. Philip of Jesus, St. Turibius, and St. Francis Solano.

* Eliza Lynch, Irish born mistress of President Francisco Solano López of Paraguay

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paraguay lacked the industrial base to replace weapons lost in battle, and the Argentine-Brazilian alliance prevented Solano López from receiving arms from abroad.

In the decade following the war, the principal political conflicts within Paraguay reflected the Liberal-Colorado split, with Legionnaires battling Lopiztas ( ex-followers of Solano López ) for power, while Brazil and Argentina maneuvered in the background.

The Triple Alliance declared war on Paraguayan leader Francisco Solano López and the resulting War of the Triple Alliance ended with the invasion of Paraguay and its defeat by the armies of the three countries.

* Francisco Solano López becomes the dictator of Paraguay.

Cultural Patrimony of Asunción, it's an oratory of the Assumption of Mary and inside it rest some of the greatest heroes of Paraguay like Francisco Solano López, José Félix Estigarribia and others.

It is named for Francisco Solano López, a former president of Paraguay, a descendant of whom founded his namesake trailer park.

Eliza Lynch ( 3 June 1835 – 27 July 1886 ) was the mistress of Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay.

It was 1854 when Eliza Lynch met Francisco Solano López, son of Carlos Antonio López, president of Paraguay, one the wealthiest small southern nations in continental America.

The dictator of nearby Paraguay, Francisco Solano López, took advantage of the Uruguayan situation in late 1864 by attempting to establish his nation as a regional power.

Francisco Solano López Carrillo ( 24 July 1827 – 1 March 1870 ) was president of Paraguay from 1862 until his death in 1870.

He has been awarded the order of Boyacá ( Colombia ), San Carlos ( Colombia ), Sól ( Peru ), Malta, Isabel La Católica ( España ), Order of José Matías Delgado ( El Salvador ), Quetzal ( Guatemala and Honduras ), Cruzeiro do Sul ( Brasil ), Merit ( Chile ), Mariscal Francisco Solano López ( Paraguay ), Order of the Liberator General San Martín ( Argentina ), Libertador ( Venezuela ), Andrés Bello ( Venezuela ), Águila Azteca ( Mexico ) and Manuel Amador Guerrero ( Panama ), among others.

Argentina, the Brazilian Empire and Uruguay invaded and routed the militaristic Paraguay of Francisco Solano López, after the strategic Rio Grande do Sul in Southern Brazil was invaded.

In 1869, amidst Paraguay ’ s defeat and Solano ’ s guerrilla war against Paraguay ’ s conquerors, Rivarola led a rebellion against Solano and became president of a provisional government that controlled the capital.