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Camp followers are civilians who follow armies. There are two common types of camp followers; first, the spouses and children of soldiers, who follow their spouse or parent's army from place to place; the second type of camp followers have historically been informal army service providers, servicing the needs of encamped soldiers, in particular selling goods or services that the military does ...
Camp Alger, near Falls Church, Virginia, was an army camp established on May 13, 1898, for the Spanish–American War effort. [1] It was originally named Camp Harries for George H. Harries, Colonel of the 1st District of Columbia Volunteer Infantry, but the name was changed on May 23 to honor Secretary of War Russell A. Alger who approved the camp.
A 17th–century Dutch map of the Americas. The historiography of Spanish America in multiple languages is vast and has a long history. [1] [2] [3] It dates back to the early sixteenth century with multiple competing accounts of the conquest, Spaniards’ eighteenth-century attempts to discover how to reverse the decline of its empire, [4] and people of Spanish descent born in the Americas ...
The Libertadores (Spanish and Portuguese for "Liberators") were the principal leaders of the Spanish American wars of independence. They were predominantly criollos (Americas-born people of European ancestry, mostly Spanish or Portuguese), bourgeois and influenced by liberalism and in some cases with military training in the mother country.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 2025. Spanish explorer of the American southwest Francisco Vázquez de Coronado Governor of New Galicia Monarch Charles I Personal details Born 1510 (1510) Salamanca, Crown of Castile Died 22 September 1554 (1554-09-22) (aged 43–44) Mexico City, Viceroyalty of New Spain Signature Military ...
The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, also known as the Conquest of Peru, was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.After years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes, 168 Spanish soldiers under conquistador Francisco Pizarro, along with his brothers in arms and their indigenous allies, captured the last Sapa Inca, Atahualpa, at the ...
In the 16th century "perhaps 240,000 Europeans" entered American ports. [7] Further Spanish settlements were progressively established in the New World: New Granada in the 1530s (later in the Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717 and present day Colombia), Lima in 1535 as the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru, Buenos Aires in 1536 (later in the ...
Soldaderas, often called Adelitas, were women in the military who participated in the conflict of the Mexican Revolution, ranging from commanding officers to combatants to camp followers. [1] "In many respects, the Mexican revolution was not only a men's but a women's revolution."