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

* 1928 – Francisco Solano López, Argentine comics artist

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Even after conscripting every able-bodied man for the front, including children as young as ten, and forcing women to perform all nonmilitary labor, Solano López still could not field an army as large as those of his rivals.

Solano López's attempt to leverage Paraguay's emergence as a regional power equal to Argentina and Brazil had disastrous consequences.

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 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.

For the 2000 season, Reno called it quits after four years in the league, while Sacramento moved to Vacaville, California and became the Solano Steelheads.

" 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.

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.

* Delius's house in Solano Grove, Florida, before and after restoration in 1961

Lastiri, who presided over the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, was promoted to the presidency of the country after Héctor Cámpora and Vicente Solano Lima resigned, he organized new elections and delivered the country's government to Juan Perón, who won with over 60 % of the votes.

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

It was called El Solano after the hot, oppressive wind which blows off the Mediterranean Sea in eastern Spain, but also for Solano County, California, his birthplace.

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 1860, it was called Solano its current name after Governor General Ramon Solano y Llanderal.

She died on April 7, 1938 in the Singian clinic, also on General Solano and a few yards away from both the Romualdez home and the San Miguel Pro-Cathedral, two days after her birthday, when she was 36.

The Grolier Poetry Book Shop was founded in September 1927 by Adrian Gambet and Gordon Cairnie ; the subsequent owner, Louisa Solano, a 1966 graduate of Boston University, took over operation of the store in 1974 after Cairnie's death.

However in this game he found himself filling in at an unfamiliar left-back position after impressive displays from Nolberto Solano at right-back during Carr's absence, putting question marks over Carr's future at the club.

Greg Solano ( born 1963 ), a Democrat, was elected Sheriff of Santa Fe County, New Mexico in 2002, after leaving the Santa Fe City Police Department as a sergeant.

Solano took on the privatization of jails in Santa Fe County after the problem-plagued jails formerly run by private companies received widespread criticism.

On November 24, 2010 Democrat Solano resigned as Sheriff of Santa Fe County after admitting to selling police and county property for years, including protective body armor vests to members of the military using eBay.

The plea deal came eight months after Solano resigned as sheriff and admitted auctioning the items for personal profit.

Solano decided to remain to assist Gálvez after the disembarkation of the troops, and the two men worked closely together.