Belgrano

[ bel-grah-noh; Spanish bel-grah-naw ]

noun

1. Ma·nuel [mah-, nwel], 1770–1820, Argentine general.

Example Sentences

Speaking to the BBC in 2002, he rejected criticism of the infamous sinking of the Argentine ship, the Belgrano, during which 323 sailors died.

From BBC

The new 10,000 peso notes feature small artistic portraits of Manuel Belgrano, a founding father of Argentina, and María Remedios del Valle, a Black Argentine woman and army captain who gained fame fighting the country’s War of Independence.

From Seattle Times

As a young barber, a 26-year-old Galante first rented his store in the leafy neighborhood of Belgrano in 1982, the last year of military dictatorship.

From Reuters

Critics deplored headlines like “Up yours, Delors,” directed at then-European Commission President Jacques Delors, and “Gotcha!” — the Sun’s reaction when a British submarine sank the Argentine cruiser Belgrano, killing more than 300 sailors, during the 1982 Falklands War.

From Seattle Times

Street-food patrons in an alley hot spot near Chinatown on a chilly May evening in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires.Credit...

From New York Times