José E. Díaz

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José Eduvigis Díaz was a celebrated Paraguayan general.

Díaz was born in the town of Cerro Verá east of Pirayú in the department of Paraguarí. He became the police chief in Asunción and first distinguished himself on raids across the Río Paraná at Corrientes in the spring of 1866 during the War of the Triple Alliance.

Díaz was the hero of the September 22, 1866 battle of Curupaity. [1]. Díaz died in January 1867 when hit by a shell shot by a Brazilian ship while scouting a river on a canoe. Paraguay's highway Ruta 4 is named after him [2]. He appears on the 100 Guaraní coin.