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The British and Dutch both claimed control of the city, but in 1800, the British took control of Surat. [3] [10] The Andrews Library was built during this period. In the great fire of 1837, more than 500 people died and caused the destruction of 9737 houses. It was the most destructive fire in the history of city. [18]
The Battle of Surat, also known as the Sack of Surat, was a land battle that took place on 5 January 1664, near the city of Surat, in present-day Gujarat, India, between Shivaji, leader of the fledgling Maratha State and Inayat Khan, a Mughal commander. The Marathas defeated the Mughal military unit posted at Surat.
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]
2010 — Surat Diamond Bourse established. 2013 — Surat Bus Rapid Transit System begin operation November 2013 (Phase I). 2015 — Project for restoration of the Surat Fort is inaugurated by government, with an investment of 55 crores. [3] 2019 — Fire in a commercial complex in Sarthana Jagatnaka kills 22 students. 2020 — COVID-19 in Surat:
The Spanish achievement of the sixteenth century was essentially the work of Castile, but so also was the Spanish disaster of the seventeenth; and it was Ortega y Gasset who expressed the paradox most clearly when he wrote what may serve as an epitaph on the Spain of the House of Austria: ‘Castile has made Spain, and Castile has destroyed it.’
The English Armada (Spanish: Invencible Inglesa, lit. 'Invincible English'), also known as the Counter Armada or the Drake–Norris Expedition, was an attack fleet sent against Spain by Queen Elizabeth I of England that sailed on 28 April 1589 during the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Eighty Years' War.
They were sold into slavery and their city was destroyed. [17] In 213 BC, Syphax, king of the Masaesyli of western Numidia (Algeria), rebelled against Carthage. The Scipio's sent three officers to conclude an alliance. The Numidians were traditionally cavalrymen and did not have any infantry. Syphax asked for help with equipping and training ...
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.