Colonel Tomás Luís Osório (died 1763) was a Portuguese military figure. He is best known for leading troops against

Pedro de Cevallos Pedro Antonio de Cevallos Cortés y Calderón, also spelled Ceballos (29 June 1715 – 26 December 1778), was a Spanish military Governor of Buenos Aires between 1757 and 1766, and the first Viceroy of the Río de la Plata in 1776. Biography ...

in the southern Brazil/Uruguay region in the 1760s. On October 6, 1762, he began to rebuild the

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. On April 19, 1763, Pedro de Cevallos captured the fortress, taking Osório prisoner along with 25 officers. After the war, Osório was submitted to a council of war in Portugal and accused of having favored the Spanish conquest, and was subsequently hanged in

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. His widow then presented evidence that showed the error of the indictment.

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