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The historian al-Tabari transmits a tradition attributed to Caliph Uthman, who stated that the road to Constantinople was through Hispania, "Only through Spain can Constantinople be conquered. If you conquer [Spain] you will share the reward of those who conquer [Constantinople]". The conquest of Hispania followed the conquest of the Maghreb. [7]
The Battle of Fishguard was a military invasion of Great Britain by Revolutionary France during the War of the First Coalition. The brief campaign, on 22–24 February 1797, is the most recent landing on British soil by a hostile foreign force, and thus is often referred to as the "last invasion of mainland Britain".
Inconclusive due to Arab-Berber Invasion. Umayyad conquest of Hispania (710–780) Part of Early Muslim conquests; Location: Iberian Peninsula and Mediterranean Sea Visigothic Kingdom: Umayyad Caliphate: Umayyad victory Start of Spanish Reconquista. Umayyad invasion of Gaul (719–759) Campaign of Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafiqi. Combat ...
The Danelaw originated in the conquest and occupation of large parts of eastern and northern England by Danish Vikings in the late ninth century. The term applies to the areas in which English kings allowed the Danes to keep their own laws following the tenth-century English conquest in return for the Danish settlers' loyalty to the English crown.
Detail of the Cantiga #63 (13th century), which deals with a late 10th-century battle in San Esteban de Gormaz involving the troops of Count García and Almanzor. [1]The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for ' reconquest ') [a] or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the ...
1535 – 9 June A Danish and Swedish fleet fights a naval battle against Lübeck. The battle ends in a draw but in the coming days the Lübeck fleet is destroyed; 1536 – 11 June In the Danish Civil War a Danish peasant army is massacred in the battle of Oxnebjerg; 1537 – 16 January Lübeck concludes peace with Christian the Third.
The Battle of Buttington was fought in 893 [a] between a Viking army and an alliance of Anglo-Saxons and Welsh.. The annals for 893 reported that a large Viking army had landed in the Lympne Estuary, Kent and a smaller force had landed in the Thames estuary under the command of Danish king Hastein.
During the War of the Spanish Succession, a European coalition tried to keep Spain out of French hands. The War of the Austrian Succession grew out to an almost pan-European land war, spreading to colonies in the Americas and India. [94] War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), after the death of king Charles II of Spain