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  2. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies - Wikipedia

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    A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies [2] [3] (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of and atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then Prince Philip II of Spain.

  3. Bartolomé de las Casas - Wikipedia

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    A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies [c] (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an account written in 1542 (published in Seville in 1552) about the mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then-Prince Philip II of Spain.

  4. Taíno genocide - Wikipedia

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    The Taíno genocide was committed against the Taíno Indigenous people by the Spanish during their colonization of the Caribbean during the 16th century. [3] The murders of the Taíno before the arrival of the Spanish Empire on the island of Hispaniola in 1492 [4] (which Christopher Columbus baptized as Hispaniola), is estimated at between 30,000 and 50,000.

  5. Destruction of the Seven Cities - Wikipedia

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    The Destruction of the Seven Cities (Spanish: Destrucción de las siete ciudades) is a term used in Chilean historiography to refer to the destruction or abandonment of seven major Spanish outposts in southern Chile around 1600, caused by the Mapuche and Huilliche uprising of 1598.

  6. List of book-burning incidents - Wikipedia

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    In 1509 Spanish forces commanded by Count Pedro Navarro, on the orders of Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, conquered the city of Oran in North Africa. Thereupon, the occupying forces set fire to the books and archives of the town – a direct continuation of Cardenal Cisneros' book destruction in Granada, a few years before (see above ...

  7. Spanish conquest of the Maya - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish conquest of the Maya was a protracted conflict during the Spanish colonisation of the Americas, ... After the destruction of Qʼumarkaj, Pedro de Alvarado ...

  8. Battle of the Twin Villages - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of the Mission was to convert and pacify the Lipan Apache and extend Spanish influence into the Great Plains. [1] The Spanish also wished to check the increase of French influence among the natives on their northern frontier. The destruction of the San Saba mission is depicted in the earliest extant painting of an event in Texas ...

  9. Siege of Madrid - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Madrid was a two-and-a-half-year siege of the Republican-controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the Nationalist armies, under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The city, besieged from October 1936, fell to the Nationalist armies on 28 March 1939.