seconds-in-command

Updated: May 19, 2025

The "Nero of South America" was ably backed-up by his seconds-in-command, Oribe and Urquiza, two most consummate scoundrels. Whether Rosas "saw red," as others since his day have done, or whether it was the play on his own name which pleased him, I cannot say, but he had a perfect mania for the colour red.

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton - Here, There and Everywhere