Alonzo.

This is coolbert:

Here with another military BEST.

Best being a popular topic of the blog - - a number of prior entries discussing a variety of military BEST! Best to include but not being limited to:

* BEST light infantry in the world [Hezbollah].
* BEST fighter plane of the Second World War. [P-51].
* BEST army commander in the world [General Fonseka.]

This too a BEST, but from the Sixteenth Century. A BEST with a most surprising twist to say the least!

The BEST swordsman of all New Spain [those Spanish colonies of the New World, North and South America.].

Don Alonso Diaz Ramirez de Guzman. Spanish soldier and noted duelist. Don Alonzo famous to such an extent that unto the man a personal audience and dispensation was granted by the Holy Father in Rome himself, the Pope!

For the rest of the story [thanks to the original tip from Paul Harvey], read the original Military Thoughts blog entry from way back when now. The true and real tale of the man who went by the nom de guerre of Don Alonzo only proving without doubt that fact is indeed stranger than fiction!!

coolbert.