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Assault on Saragossa is a history painting of 1845 by the Polish artist January Suchodolski. [1] It depicts the Siege of Zaragoza of 1808 during the Peninsular War , part of the wider Napoleonic Wars . [ 2 ]
Map (1868) of the second siege of Zaragoza Amid bitter street fighting, French infantry assault the defenders of a church during the siege. Illustration by Jules Girardet. The surrender of Zaragoza, by Maurice Orange. The siege of Zaragoza was the French capture of the Spanish city of Zaragoza (also known as Saragossa) in 1809 during the ...
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa collects intertwining stories, all of them set in whole or in part in Spain, with a large and colorful cast of Romani, thieves, inquisitors, a cabbalist, a geometer, the cabbalist's beautiful sister, two Moorish princesses (Emina and Zubeida) and others that the brave, perhaps foolhardy, Walloon Guard Alphonse van Worden meets, imagines or reads about in the ...
The Defence of Saragossa is an 1828 history painting by the British artist David Wilkie. [1] It depicts a scene during the 1808 Siege of Zaragoza at the time of the Peninsular War . [ 2 ]
Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea y Jiménez de Urrea, 10th Count of Aranda (1718 in Siétamo, Huesca – 1798 in Épila, Saragossa), was a Spanish statesman and diplomat.
Alfonso de la Caballeria of Saragossa, who still maintained his connection with the large synagogue there, took part in the conspiracy against the inquisitor Arbues. The remains of Juan de la Caballeria were burned in Saragossa, at which place, in 1488, Luis de la Caballeria, as well as his son Jaime and several other members of the family, was ...
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The Saragossa Manuscript (Polish: Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie, "The Manuscript found in Zaragoza") is a 1965 Polish film directed by Wojciech Has, based on the 1815 novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki. Set primarily in Spain, it tells a frame story containing gothic, picaresque and erotic elements.