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  2. Conquest of the Canary Islands - Wikipedia

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    The conquest of the Canary Islands by the Crown of Castile took place between 1402 and 1496 in two periods: the Conquista señorial, carried out by Castilian nobility in exchange for a covenant of allegiance to the crown, and the Conquista realenga, carried out by the Spanish crown itself during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs.

  3. Operation Pilgrim - Wikipedia

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    Operation Pilgrim was a planned British operation to invade and occupy the Canary Islands during World War II. [2] The invasion was a contingency plan to be executed in the event of a known plan whereby Germany would support Spain in occupying Gibraltar, the Azores, the Canary Islands as well as the Cape Verde Islands (the German plan was known as Operation Felix).

  4. Canary Islands in pre-colonial times - Wikipedia

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    Petroglyph in the islands Mummy of San Andrés. The Canary Islands have been known since antiquity. Until the Spanish colonization between 1402 and 1496, the Canaries were populated by an indigenous population, whose origin was Amazigh from North Africa. The islands were visited by the Phoenicians, the Greeks and the Carthaginians.

  5. Kingdom of the Canary Islands - Wikipedia

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    Portugal formally recognised Castile as the ruler of the Canary Islands in 1479 as part of the Treaty of Alcáçovas. [citation needed] The military governor Alonso Fernández de Lugo finally conquered the islands of La Palma (in 1492–1493) and Tenerife (in 1494–1496) for the Crown of Castile, thus completing the conquest of the island group.

  6. List of Ottoman conquests, sieges and landings - Wikipedia

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    Conquest of several islands in the Aegean Sea. 1413 1415–1416 Conquest of the strategic port of Samsun in the Black Sea 1417 Third Ottoman siege of Constantinople: 1422 Reconquest of Albania, conquests of several coastal settlements in Morea 1423 Ottoman-Venetian War 1423–1430 Conquest of the strategic port of Sinop (Sinope) in the Black ...

  7. Canary Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Canary Islands (/ k ə ˈ n ɛər i /, Spanish: Canarias, Spanish: [kaˈnaɾjas]), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco.

  8. Category:History of the Canary Islands - Wikipedia

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  9. Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797) - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife was an amphibious assault by the Royal Navy on the Spanish port city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands.Launched by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson on 22 July 1797, the assault was defeated, and on 25 July the remains of the landing party withdrew under a truce, having lost several hundred men.