Álvaro de Sande

Don Álvaro de Sande (1489 – 20 October 1573) was a Spanish nobleman and military leader.

Don Alvaro de Sande participated in numerous campaigns in the Spanish Army, including the Conquest of Tunis (1535), the conquest of Düren and Roermond in 1543, and the grand Battle of Mühlberg in 1549, in which Sande distinguished himself.

When the German Campaign ended, Sande fought in the Italian War of 1551–1559 against France in the Tercios of Milan.

After the sea battle, the surviving soldiers took refuge in the fort they had completed just days earlier.

After a siege of three months, the garrison surrendered and 5,000 prisoners, including Alvaro de Sande, were carried back to Istanbul.