Blas de Lezo

Blas de Lezo was a Spanish admiral from Pasajes in the Basque Country who had lost a leg, an eye and the use of an arm in earlier battles. As naval commander at Cartagena de Indias in 1741 he helped Viceroy Sebastián de Eslava repel the large British expedition of Admiral Edward Vernon during the War of Jenkins' Ear, and died of illness a few months after the siege.