This character is taken prisoner while attempting to flee disguised as an Indian witch-doctor, and his mother discerns that he has been killed when she discovers worms in a pot of milk. In fact, this character had shot himself in the chest where the doctor had drawn a circle of iodine, but the bullet passes clean through without hitting any vital organs. After retiring, he spends his time making gold fishes in his workshop. Most of this man's 17 (*) illegitimate sons are found assassinated with permanent Ash Wednesday crosses on their foreheads. He loses all of the 32 wars he fights after a Conservative regime firing squad is driven off by his brother Jose Arcadio. As he faces that firing squad, this character remembers "that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." For 10 points, name this Liberal revolutionary from O
This character is taken prisoner while attempting to flee disguised as an Indian witch-doctor, and his mother discerns that he has been killed when she discovers worms in a pot of milk. In fact, this character had shot himself in the chest where the doctor had drawn a circle of iodine, but the bullet passes clean through without hitting any vital organs. After retiring, he spends his time making gold fishes in his workshop. Most of this man's 17 (*) illegitimate sons are found assassinated with permanent Ash Wednesday crosses on their foreheads. He loses all of the 32 wars he fights after a Conservative regime firing squad is driven off by his brother Jose Arcadio. As he faces that firing squad, this character remembers "that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." For 10 points, name this Liberal revolutionary from One Hundred Years of Solitude.
This character is taken prisoner while attempting to flee disguised as an Indian witch-doctor, and his mother discerns that he has been killed when she discovers worms in a pot of milk.
Colonel Aureliano Buendia [or Coronel Aureliano Buendia; or Aureliano senior or obvious equivalents indicating that he's the first Aureliano; prompt on partial answers; prompt on "Buendia"]