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La Noche Triste ("The Night of Sorrows", literally "The Sad Night"), was an important event during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, wherein Hernán Cortés, his army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were driven out of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
The Recovery of Bahía de Todos los Santos by Maíno (1632).. The decline of Spain was the gradual process of financial and military exhaustion and attrition and suffered by metropolitan Spain [1] throughout the 17th century, in particular when viewed in comparison with ascendant rival powers of France and England.
The designation mainly covers two periods: the first attempts occurred from 1821 to 1825 and involved the defense of Mexico's territorial waters, while the second period had two stages, including the Mexican expansion plan to take the Spanish-held island of Cuba between 1826 and 1828 and the 1829 expedition of Spanish General Isidro Barradas ...
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was a pivotal event in the history of the Americas, marked by the collision of the Aztec Triple Alliance and the Spanish Empire. Taking place between 1519 and 1521, this event saw the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, and his small army of European soldiers and numerous indigenous allies ...
Some came armed with mops and buckets, pick-axes or shovels, others carried bottles of drinking water and bags of food. Thousands of volunteers of all ages, walks of life and different ...
The Spanish American wars of independence (Spanish: Guerras de independencia hispanoamericanas) took place across the Spanish Empire in the early 19th century. The struggles in both hemispheres began shortly after the outbreak of the Peninsular War , forming part of the broader context of the Napoleonic Wars .
As in the mid-1930s the Spanish GDP was much smaller than the Italian, French or British ones, [307] and as in the Second Republic the annual defence and security budget was usually around $0,13bn (total annual governmental spendings were close to $0.65bn), [note 5] wartime military expenditures put huge strain on the Spanish economy. Financing ...
The loss of Cuba, which was seen not as a colony but as part of Spain itself, [20] was traumatic for the Spanish government and Spanish people. This trauma led to the rise of the Generation of '98 , a group of young intellectuals, authors, and artists who were deeply critical of what they perceived as conformism and ignorance on the part of the ...