Joseph O'Donnell

Joseph O'Donnell or José O'Donnell y Donnell (20 December 1722 – 22 March 1787) was an Irish-Spanish general and Colonel of Spain's Irlanda Regiment.

Family O'Donnell married María Ana de Anhetan, in Luxembourg in 1765. The couple had two daughters

Alejandro O'Donnell (born in Luxembourg, c. 1763 – La Coruña, 1 December 1837)

Joseph O'Donnell (1768–1836): following his part in the successful evacuation of the La Romana Division from Denmark in 1808, he suffered a series of defeats, being beaten by Nicolas Godinot at Zújar in 1811, and routed by Jean Isidore Harispe at Castalla in 1812.

Charles O'Donnell (1772–1830) helped defend the Lines of Torres Vedras in 1810 and was named Captain General of Valencia in 1811.

Henry O'Donnell, 1st Count of la Bisbal (1776–1834), the most famous of the three, was defeated at Vic by Joseph Souham, beaten badly at Margalef by forces under Louis Gabriel Suchet, won a victory at the La Bisbal in 1810 over François Xavier de Schwarz, and successfully concluded the Siege of Pamplona in 1813.

Francisco O'Donnell (born La Coruña – died in France as a prisoner of war): enlisted as a child cadet in the Hibernia Regiment, by 1805 he was a lieutenant in the sister regiment of Irlanda at Cádiz.

O'Donnell enlisted his three eldest sons, Leopoldo, José and Carlos, in his own regiment, and the three youngest, Henry, Alejandro and Francisco, in one of its sister regiments, the Hibernia.