Mulhall's Handbook of the River Plate Republics, 1875, Paraguay

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Forename Surname Notes Page Number
  Burrell Burrell, Valpy and Thompson engineers for the railway, commenced in 1859, from Asunción to Paraguari where it was stopped half way to Villa Rica by the war 393-4
Captain Cilley an American who explored the Pilcomayo in 1873, after four months of hardship his party reached Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the nearest town in Bolivia 395
Father Field Fathers Field and Ortega made the first Jesuit settlement in 1557 along the Upper Uruguay 397
  Fleming with Robinson got up an expedition of “Lincolnshire farmers” about 800 people of all kinds; 160 died of privation and hardship at Itá and Paraguay, 2 were murdered by natives and the rest were removed to Buenos Aires at the expense and by the charitable efforts of H M Chargé d’Affaires, the St Patrick's Association and foreign bankers and merchants of Buenos Aires 400
  Grant Messrs. Whitehead and Grant built the arsenal in the city of Asunción for Lopez I in 1861 392
Mrs Lynch during the Lopez regime Mrs Lynch owned a summer palace at the foot of the glorious peak of Ytaguá on lake Ypacaray 393
Commander Page registered a fall of thirteen and a quarter feet on the Rio Paraguay at Asunción between October and February; stated the dimensions of the stone church at Itapica on the Argentine frontier as 320 feet long by 80 wide 392 and 396
  Robinson with Fleming got up an expedition of “Lincolnshire farmers” about 800 people of all kinds; 160 died of privation and hardship at Itá and Paraguay, 2 were murdered by natives and the rest were removed to Buenos Aires at the expense and by the charitable efforts of H M Chargé d’Affaires, the St Patrick's Association and foreign bankers and merchants of Buenos Aires 400
  Thompson an American who explored the Pilcomaya with Margariños in 1844 395
  Thompson Burrell, Valpy and Thompson engineers for the railway, commenced in 1859, from Asunción to Paraguari where it was stopped half way to Villa Rica by the war 393-4
Colonel Thompson an Englishman; defender of Angostura 395 and 399
  Twite an eminent geologist who before the war found precious metals in different places and iron in great abundance 386
  Valpy Burrell, Valpy and Thompson engineers for the railway, commenced in 1859, from Asunción to Paraguari where it was stopped half way to Villa Rica by the war 393-4
  Whitehead Messrs. Whitehead and Grant built the arsenal in the city of Asunción for Lopez I in 1861 392

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