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Colonel Aureliano Buendía fathers seventeen sons with seventeen different women while away fighting in the war. They all arrive in Macondo for the first time in a small span of time, and are baptized with the name Aureliano and the last names of their mothers. The Aurelianos receive ashes on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday that affix permanently to their faces. When Colonel Aureliano Buendía threatens to start his own army with his sons, it is this mark which identifies them for assassination.
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Chapter 12
...the group of young women until they take refuge in a nearby house. The four Aurelianos rescue them after one of the attackers claws at Remedios the Beauty. That night the...
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...The only thing that overwhelms the talk of this miracle is the extermination of the Aurelianos. Colonel Aureliano Buendía had foreseen the tragedy. When he saw Mr. Brown arrive to town...
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