Jeronimo Saornil
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Jeronimo Saornil (b.1771, Pozal de Gallinas, Valladolid) is the leader of a band of Spanish irregulars (or 'guerrillas'), who help the British against the French in the Peninsula War . He is described as being of a wild and bandit-like appearance, but he and his men are instrumental in the rescue of Major Colquhoun Grant [31].
Saornil, who began life as the son of humble peasants, briefly joined the Spanish infantry but returned to work upon the land until, in 1808, he became the leader of a band of some twenty men who had taken up arms against the French in his native province of Valladolid. The rest is history.
Saornil, who began life as the son of humble peasants, briefly joined the Spanish infantry but returned to work upon the land until, in 1808, he became the leader of a band of some twenty men who had taken up arms against the French in his native province of Valladolid. The rest is history.