 Complete the following phrase:  Batlle was born on May 23, 1856 in Montevideo to Lorenzo Batlle y Grau and Amalia Ordoñez. Batlles grandfather, José Batlle y Carreó, had arrived in Montevideo on his own ship with Batlles grandmother from Sitjes, a town near Barcelona, and built a flour mill which won a contract to provision the Royal Spanish Navy in Montevideo. Batlles grandfather was loyal to the Spanish crown through both the 