Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Friday, 23 November 2012

Europe and the Barbary Pirates, Part 2

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From the 16th to the early 19th centuries pretty much all the European countries with a coast line suffered slaving raids from vessels of th...
Monday, 16 July 2012

The Spanish at the Gates, Gibraltar 1779-1783

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It's very hard to get details of the Spanish troops involved in the Siege, after all the the British concentrated on the heroics of the ...
Wednesday, 11 July 2012

The Largest Battle of the American Revolution

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Was this Saratoga? Yorktown? No, it was the siege of Gibraltar, empathising how world wide this conflict really was. The Siege Gibraltar...
Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Uruguay 1776

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According to Hollywood, the late 1770s were all about a collection of farmers and militia rebelling against the might of the British Empire,...
Thursday, 2 June 2011

Spain in 1860s America - Sources

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General sources for the period Illustrated London News (various online) New York Public Library (excellent for uniforms) http://digitalgalle...
Monday, 30 May 2011

Santo Domingo and out - Spain in 1860s America Part 3

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The first flicker of rebellion came in early February 1863 when 50 men stormed the local HQ in Neiba, but this was quelled almost immediatel...
Saturday, 28 May 2011

Santo Domingo - Spain in the Americas Part 2

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Spain had been expelled from nearly all Latin America in the early 1820s, but had designs on a return. This might have seemed a pipe dream, ...
Thursday, 26 May 2011

España vuelve - Spain's return to the Americas in the 1860s. Part 1

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The 1850s saw a remilitarisation of Spain, as Queen Isabella struggled to gain popularity by recapturing past glories. This started well wit...