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A few Liberals, including Álvaro de Figueroa, leader of the opposition in the Cortes, were also pro-Allied, [4] along with Miguel de Unamuno and other select members of the Spanish intelligentsia. [5] [6] The Italian government's initial neutrality was a key factor in the Spanish government also being able to declare itself neutral. [7]
In 1900, the British had a 3.7:1 tonnage advantage over Germany; in 1910, the ratio was 2.3:1 and in 1914, it reached 2.1:1. Ferguson argues: "So decisive was the British victory in the naval arms race that it is hard to regard it as in any meaningful sense a cause of the First World War."
Later lived in Rio de Janeiro. [75] [76] Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic: Aarne Arvonen: 4 August 1897: 1 January 2009 (111) Last Red Guard veteran from the Finnish Civil War. Oldest Nordic person and Finland's oldest ever man. Last living Finn born in the 19th century. Lived in Järvenpää. [77] [78] [79] Finland: Lauri Nurminen 9 ...
Impossible Things (Spanish: Cosas imposibles) is a 2021 Mexican drama film directed by Ernesto Contreras and written by Fanie Soto. [3] Starring Nora Velázquez and Benny Emmanuel. [ 4 ] It premiered on June 17, 2021, in Mexican theaters.
The interpretation was popular among left-wing Progressives (led by Senator Robert La Follette of Wisconsin) and among the "agrarian" wing of the Democratic party—including the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee of the House. He strenuously opposed war, and when it came he rewrote the tax laws to make sure the rich paid the ...
The Belgian government published statistics on their war losses in the Annuaire statistique de la Belgique et du Congo Belge 1915–1919 [31] Heeres-Sanitätsinspektion im Reichskriegsministeriums, Sanitätsbericht über das deutsche Heer, (Deutsches Feld- und Besatzungsheer), im Weltkriege 1914–1918, Volume 3, Sec. 1, Berlin 1934. The ...
The National Palace, a target of the rebel artillery fire. There were dead bodies in the Zócalo and the capital's streets. [1]The Ten Tragic Days (Spanish: La Decena Trágica) during the Mexican Revolution is the name given to the multi-day coup d'état in Mexico City by opponents of Francisco I. Madero, the democratically elected president of Mexico, between 9–19 February 1913.
Puerto Ricans have had a long history of defending their island, having fought off against attacks from Caribs and pirates, against invasions of other European powers at war with Spain which sought to capture Puerto Rico, [8] enlisting alongside General Bernardo de Gálvez during the American Revolutionary War in the battles of Baton Rouge, Mobile, Pensacola and St. Louis, [9] [10] and ...