LOPEZ, Narciso, Cuban revolutionist: h. Venezuela, 1799; d. Havana, Cuba, 1 Sept. 1851. He served for some time in the Spanish army, from which he retired in 1822 with the rank of colonel. After the evacuation of Venezuela by the Spanish troops, be established himself in Cuba, and afterward during a stay at Madrid joined the party of Isabella against Don Carlos, and became successively adjutant of Valdes, governor of the Spanish capital, and senator for Seville, but threw up his offices after the refusal of the Cortes to admit the representatives of Cuba. Valdes became governor-general of that island, and Lopez on returning thither was em ployed by him in various capacities. He was soon absorbed by the project of throwing off the yoke of Spain, and he proceeded in 1849 to the United States, where he sunk almost his whole fortune in the organization of three suc cessive expeditions to Cuba: the so-called Round island expedition in 1849; the °invasion of Cardenas)) expedition in May 1850, both of which failed, and the Bahia-Honda expedition, of August 1851, which ended fatally. Lopez,
with several hundred persons of different nationalities whom he had enlisted in various parts of the United States, landed at Morino, near Havana, where he left 200 of his men under the command of Colonel Crittenden who were taken by the Spaniards and shot. Lopez went to Las Pozas, where he succeeded in re pelling an attack of the Spanish soldiers; but, isolated from his friends, sought refuge in the mountains, where he was captured and taken to Havana. He was sentenced to death, which he met with great firmness. Consult Claiborne, J. F.,