February 2012
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There’s something about the name Roncesvalles that just doesn’t roll off the tongue. Meaning “valley of thorns” in Spanish, the street was named by Colonel Walter O’Hara, an early Irish settler to the area, for the 1813 battle of Roncesvalles Gorge, a bloody conflict in the Napoleonic Wars between French and Anglo-Portugese forces in which he fought.The Story...
