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O'REILLY, Count Alexander, Spanish soldier, born in Ireland about 1730; died in Chinchilla, Murcia, in i794. He entered the Spanish service, became sub-lieutenant in the Hibernian regiment, and rose rapidly. He became in 1764 second in command at Havana with the rank of major-general. After restoring and strengthening the fortifications of the city he returned to Spain. He was in 1767 appointed governor of Louisiana, which province had opposed its annexation to Spain and had resisted the first governor, Ulloa. The rigorous measures that he adopted to force the inhabitants to acquiesce in Spanish rule made him many enemies, and in 1769 he was recalled to Spain. He led an expedition against Algiers in 1775, and was appointed to command the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees shortly before his death.
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