This expression is of Blas de Lezo and Olabarrieta, Basque Admiral, born in Pasajes ( 41 Guipúzcoa; in the 17TH century, which with 3,500 men and 6 ships defeated the English army led by Admiral Edward Vernon with 186 ships and 27,000 sailors in Cartagena de Indias in the mid-eighteenth century. These days is much talk of " Lezo 34 operation; against the political corruption of the recall. to this illustrious Spanish seaman that was a result of his war wounds cojo, manco and blind in one eye.
