Orense
Americannoun
noun
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Prosecutors have said Orense worked closely with a former chief of Venezuela's military intelligence agency who was indicted alongside Maduro and extradited to the United States from Spain earlier this year.
From Reuters ● Nov. 27, 2023
Just after World War II, he got a job paving five miles of dirt road in his home village of Orense.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next day three or four thousand other irregulars from the valley of Avia were attacked and scattered, and on the 18th the French cavalry, with three brigades of infantry, entered Orense.
From With Moore at Corunna by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Soult reached Orense on the 20th, without guns, stores, ammunition, or baggage, his men exhausted with fatigue and misery, most of them shoeless, and some without muskets.
From With Moore at Corunna by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
When at last the army reached Orense, after seven days' marching, varied by small skirmishes, the soldiers were exhausted and depressed.
From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by M. (François) Guizot
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