One Hundred Years of Solitude

Colonel Aureliano Buendía
so that he could go on with
the war. But Úrsula did not
bother to dig it up because it
was rumored in those days
that Colonel Aureliano
Buendía had been killed in a
landing near the provincial
capital. The official
announcement-the fourth in
less than two years-was
considered true for almost six
months because nothing
further was heard of him.