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The Miracle of Empel (Milagro de Empel in Spanish) was an unexpected Spanish victory on December 8, 1585, near Empel, in the Netherlands, as part of the Eighty Years' War, in which a surrounded Spanish force managed to attack and destroy the immobilized Dutch ships when the waters around their island suddenly froze, escaping the expected defeat.
The Battle of Annual was fought on 22 July 1921 at Annual, in northeastern Morocco, between the Spanish Army and Rifian Berbers during the Rif War.The Spanish suffered a major military defeat, which is almost always referred to by the Spanish as the Disaster of Annual (Spanish: Desastre de Annual) which is widely considered to be the worst defeat suffered by the modern Spanish Army.
Enel S.p.A. is an Italian multinational manufacturer and distributor of electricity and gas. Enel was first established as a public body at the end of 1962, and then transformed into a limited company in 1992. [7] In 1999, following the liberalisation of the electricity market in Italy, Enel was privatised. [8]
Spanish sources record it as Tay Fusa, which does not correspond to a Japanese name but could be a transliteration of Taifu-san or Taifu-sama, with taifu being a word for a Japanese medieval chieftain rank, [11] also pronounced as tāi-hu in Hokkien Chinese, or dàfū in Mandarin Standard Chinese.
The English carrack Jesus of Lübeck, captured by the Spanish during the battle, as depicted in the Anthony Roll. San Juan's port facilities were extremely small and rudimentary, consisting of a mooring wall built by the Spanish on "a little yland of stones, not past three feet aboue water in the highest place, and not past a bow-shotte ouer any way at the most, and it standeth from the maine ...
According to traditional historiography, the Spanish first came to Central Chile the territory had been under Inca rule for about 60 years. [1] There are however dissenting views, recent works suggest at least 130 years of Inca presence in Central Chile, [1] and historian Osvaldo Silva posits remarkably short chronologies of direct Inca rule and military involvement.
The "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" was the popular name for a French army mobilized in 1823 by the Bourbon King of France, Louis XVIII, to help the Spanish Bourbon royalists restore King Ferdinand VII of Spain to the absolute power of which he had been deprived during the Liberal Triennium. Despite the name, the actual number of troops ...
Narváez's forces retreated to the main temple of Cempoala, but attempted to flee as opposing Spanish-native forces prepared to surround it. [4] In the ensuing chaos, Narváez was hit by a pike in the eye, wounding him badly and allowing him to be captured. [4]