Guillermo Pintos Ledesma

Guillermo Pintos Ledesma (26 January 1856 – 27 July 1909) was a Spanish Army officer. He took part in the Third Carlist War, the Ten Years' War, the Moro conflict, and the 1895–1898 Cuban War. Promoted to brigadier general in 1905, he was killed in action at a ravine called Barranco del Lobo, during the Second Melillan campaign, leading a column of light infantry that was ambushed by Riffians at the foothills of the Mount Gurugu.

Biography Born on 26 January 1856, in the Chafarinas Islands,

Promoted to the rank of Alférez in April 1874, he was destined to the Zamora regiment,

The operation (that came to be known as the or Battle of Wolf Ravine) caused 750 Spanish casualties (including wounded and killed) and was the worst defeat suffered by the Spanish army during the Second Melillan campaign.