levee maintenance. Having restored public order, O'Reilly assigned the post of Governor of Louisiana to the Colonel of the Havana Regiment in December 1769, retaining the post of Captain-General for himself. Louisiana was firmly placed as a dependency of the military and political establishment in Cuba. Return to Spain Back in Spain after October 1770, O'Reilly was charged to organize six new regiments to be trained near Cádiz, ready for transportation to the Caribbean should a new war between Spain and Great Britain break out. In 1775, O'Reilly was given command of a major Spanish expedition attacking Algiers. Although this North African campaign was a disaster, the high reputation of O'Reilly was not destroyed, and he continued to serve as captain-general in southern Spain. He died in the city of Cádiz in 1794, aged 72, while on his way to take command of an army in the Eastern Pyrenees that had been ordered to oppose invading French revolutionary forces, just after the beheading of Louis XVI. O'Reilly is buried in the parish church in Bonete in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. A street in Cádiz still bears his name, as does one, Calle O'Reilly/Sráid Ó Raghallaigh, in Old Havana, Cuba. It marks the spot where O'Reilly came ashore in 1763 while the English were embarking to leave. See also Military history of Puerto Rico Irish military diaspora Irish regiments Demetrio O'Daly References External links 1722 births 1794 deaths People from County Dublin 18th-century Irish people Counts of Spain Irish emigrants to Spain Irish expatriates in Spain Irish mercenaries Irish soldiers in the Spanish Army Governors of Spanish Louisiana People of the Spanish colonial Americas Spanish colonial governors and administrators Spanish generals Spanish people of Irish descent Wild Geese (soldiers) 18th-century Puerto Rican people Irish expatriates in the Spanish Empire