Mariano Alvarez de Castro (1749-1810). Spanish military. Military governor during the siege of Gerona, in 1809, by French troops during the Peninsular War. The corpse of General Alvarez de Castro (22 January, 1810). Chromolithography. "Historia General de España" (General History of Spain), by Miguel Morayta. Volume VII. Madrid, 1893.

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