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On July 16, after both governments agreed to the terms of capitulation ("surrender" was avoided), in which Toral surrendered his garrison and all troops in the Division of Santiago, an additional 9,000 soldiers. [1]: 210 The Spanish also ceded Guantanamo City and San Luis. The Spanish troops marched out of Santiago on July 17. [1]: 210
The Treaty of Granada, also known as the Surrender of Granada or the Capitulations, [1] was signed and ratified on November 25, 1491, [2] between Boabdil, the sultan of Granada, and Ferdinand and Isabella, the King and Queen of Castile, León, Aragon and Sicily.
Map of Hidalgo's Campaign, which included the Alhóndiga confrontation. Hidalgo sent José Mariano Jiménez as an emissary. He was a miner with no military training who asked Allende for permission to join the troops; Allende refused but Hidalgo decided to send him on a special mission to intimidate Riaño and request the surrender of the city of Guanajuato without violence.
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic , and consisted of various socialist , communist , separatist , anarchist , and ...
Santiago Surrender Tree. The site of the Santiago Surrender Tree (also known as the Tree of Peace or Spanish: Arbol de la Paz), located in Santiago, Cuba, marks the site where Spanish forces surrendered to U.S. forces on July 17, 1898, at the end of the Spanish–American War.
At 3:00 pm that afternoon, junior Spanish officers decided to draft an instrument of surrender, which Barradas ratified. Under the terms of the surrender, the Spanish army gave up its weapons, was allowed safe passage back to Cuba, and was obliged to sign a vow not to take up arms against Mexico in the future.
Under the surrender terms, the men were to be repatriated to France, but the Spanish did not honor the terms and transferred them to the island of Cabrera, where most died of starvation. [ 2 ] When news of the catastrophe reached Joseph Bonaparte 's court in Madrid , the result was a general retreat to the Ebro , abandoning much of Spain to the ...
José Toral y Velázquez [a] (August 18, 1832 – July 10, 1904) was a Spanish Army general who was a divisional commander of IV Corps in Cuba during the Spanish–American War. He surrendered the city of Santiago de Cuba on July 17, 1898, after the Siege of Santiago .