Francisco Solano L%C3%B3pez

Francisco Solano Lpez was President of Paraguay from 1862 until his death in 1870. He was the eldest son of Juana Pabla Carrillo and the president Carlos Antonio Lpez, who had left his son a prosperous nation.

Solano Lpez was born in Manor, a barrio of Asuncin in 1827. His father, Carlos Antonio Lopez, ascended to the Paraguayan Presidency in 1841 following the death of the nations longtime dictator, Jos Gaspar Rodrguez de Francia. The elder Lopez would commission his son as a Brigadier General in the Paraguayan Army at the age of 18, in 1844. During the spasmodic hostilities then prevailing within Argentina, Solano Lopez was appointed commanderinchief of Paraguayan forces stationed along the Argentine frontier. He pursued his early military studies in Rio de Janeiro and Asuncin specializing in fortifications and artillery.

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