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Alvarado

[ ahl-vah-rah-thaw ]

noun

  1. A·lon·so de [ah-, lawn, -saw , th, e], c1490–1554, Spanish soldier in the conquests of Mexico and Peru: governor of Cuzco 1552?–54.
  2. Pe·dro de [pe, -, th, r, aw , th, e], 1495–1541, Spanish soldier: chief aide of Cortés in conquest of Mexico; governor of Guatemala 1530–34.


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“We searched all the impound lots in the city, and there they were,” Alvarado said.

Raquel Alvarado is the mother of the three young Americans killed.

In October, Alvarado and Martinez pleaded guilty in federal court and were sentenced to 30 years.

On March 11, Idaho State Police pulled over Alvarado and found three pounds of meth along with a pound of cocaine in the car.

With his right eye closed, Alvarado was looking like a gargoyle and there was nothing left in his offensive tank.

The same has been said of Don Juan de Alvarado, ex-fiscal, and that is known throughout the country as a public matter.

The first, founded by Alvarado, was on the very spot where he fought the battle which made him conqueror.

For seventeen years Alvarado kept the Indians at work building a new capital on the site of their old one.

Alvarado and his three hundred Spanish soldiers were nearly a year in making the journey through the forest.

There was not a braver soldier, a fiercer fighter, or a more resolute man in the following of Cortes than Pedro de Alvarado.

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