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Agustín de Montiano y Luyando

He was a brother of Manuel de Montiano, Lieutenant General of the Royal Spanish Army, a defender in 1738 of the attacks by the English Crown to the Florida Peninsula, held by the Spaniards since the first half of the 16th century and later sold to the United States in the 19th century by the Spanish Crown.

Antonio de Espejo

Rather than return to the now unfriendly Rio Grande Valley, Espejo decided to return to Mexico via the Pecos River which he called "Rio de Las Vacas" because of the large number of bison the Spaniards encountered during the first six days they followed the river downstream.

Arasibo

In 1511, Agueybana's brother Güeybaná, better known as Agüeybaná II (The Brave), discovered that the Spaniards were not "gods" and this encouraged the Cacique to rebel against the invaders.

Aravaca

During the long Spanish postwar period (1940-1959) millions of Spaniards left their homes in the poor provinces to migrate to industrial areas such as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Basque Country.

Bajos de Haina

The nugget was sent to Spain, but the ship that carried it sank along with Governor Francisco de Bobadilla, cacique Guarionex and dozens of Spaniards.

Bernard de Nogaret de La Valette d'Épernon

He fought in Picardy (1636), in Guyenne, and finally against the Spaniards, and repressed the Peasants' Revolt (Révolte des Croquants) in 1637.

Brethren of the Coast

Based primarily on the island of Tortuga off the coast of Haiti and in the city of Port Royal on the island of Jamaica, the original Brethren were mostly French Huguenot and British Protestants, but their ranks were joined by other adventurers of various nationalities including Spaniards, and even African sailors, as well as escaped slaves and outlaws of various sovereigns.

Candlemas Island

Candlemas Island is the setting of a novel by Ian Cameron, The White Ship (1975), which tells of a disastrous expedition to the island in 1975 where members of the expedition must contend with ghosts of Spaniards shipwrecked on the island in 1818.

Candon

During this wedding, a group of Spaniards, which included Captain Juan de Salcedo, passed by, and asked what was going on.

Deception Pass Bridge

In the spring of 1792, Joseph Whidbey, master of HMS Discovery and Captain Vancouver's chief navigator proved that it was not really a small bay as charted by the Spaniards (hence the name "Deception"), but a deep and turbulent channel that connects the Strait of Juan de Fuca with the Saratoga Passage, which separates the mainland from what they believed was a peninsula (actually Fidalgo Island and Whidbey Island).

Demographics of France

According to a 2008 study by Dutch geneticist Manfred Kayser, French people based on a sample from Lyon, showed genetic similarities to all Europeans especially the Swiss, Germans, Austrians, Italians, and Spaniards.

El Circulo Mercantil de Ferrol

Its first president was William V. Martin (a.k.a.: Guillermo V. Martin, by the Spaniards), British Citizen and British Vice-Consul in Ferrol.

Elizabeth City County, Virginia

They were friendly to the English, but Sir Thomas Gates either worried about safety (including potential attack by the Spaniards and the Dutch) or coveted their corn fields after the "starving time" of the 1609-10 winter.

Emilio Jacinto

Like general Mariano Álvarez, he refused to join the forces of general Emilio Aguinaldo, the leader of the Katipunan's Magdalo faction.He lived in Laguna and also joined the forces against the Spaniards.

Fernando Wood

His Spanish forename was chosen by his mother, who found it in an English gothic novel written by George Walker, The Three Spaniards (London, 1800).

Fort de Salses

Built by the Spaniards at the end of the 15th century, the fortress guarded the former frontier between Spain and France.

Frederick H. Shaw

Frederick Howard Shaw (a.k.a. Federico H. Shaw by the Spaniards) He was born in the Naval Station of Ferrol in North-western Spain on 20 October 1864 and died in the Spanish Capital on 11 August 1924) after a long and prolific political career.

George Glas

A few days later he was seized by the Spaniards, taken to Teneriffe and imprisoned at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Giovanni Paolo I Sforza

When his other half-brother Francesco II made a similar attempt (1525), Giovanni Paolo was besieged in the Castello Sforzesco by the Spaniards under Antonio de Leyva; three years later he was again besieged by them in Lodi, this time with victorious results.

Henri de La Ferté-Senneterre

Becoming mestre de camp (equivalent to the modern rank of colonel), Henri II gained glory fighting the Spaniards at Hesdin on 29 June 1639 and, as a reward, Louis XIII made him maréchal de camp.

History of Madrid

After repelling a first attack under French General Lefranc, both Spaniards died fighting heroically against the reinforcements sent by Murat.

Huetamo

During this period of time, Andalusian Spaniards, African slaves and indigenous people populated the region.

James Duff, 4th Earl Fife

Thereupon Duff sought distraction in 1808 by volunteering to join the Spaniards in their war against Napoleon.

Jean Braconnier

According to the account published in the 19th century by Louis Prosper Gachard from anonymous chronicles written during Philip's voyages, the attacking Spaniards were armed with shields, rapiers, and spears, but Braconnier and his companion fought so capably that they deprived some of the attackers of their weapons and injured them with them.

John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton

Between 1652 and 1655 Berkeley served under Turenne in the campaigns against Condé, and the Spaniards in Flanders, accompanying the Duke of York as a volunteer.

Jumacao

When he did not, the Tainos realized that the Spaniards were not gods after all.

Karl Proske

Proske was a pioneer in the field, and the fact that his editions reflected only the German, Flemish, and Italian repertoires - excluding Spaniards for the most part, though he did include Victoria - does not diminish his amazing contributions to Sacred music.

La Malinche

A novel published in 2006 by Laura Esquivel casts the Nahua, Malinalli, as one of history's pawns who becomes Malinche (the novel's title) a woman "trapped between the Mexican civilization and the invading Spaniards, and unveils a literary view of the legendary love affair".

La Purisima Mission

The mission is reportedly haunted by the Indians and Spaniards who died there and has recently been featured on the paranormal reality TV shows Ghost Adventures, The Othersiders and The Missions of California.

Laws of Burgos

The Leyes de Burgos ("Laws of Burgos"), promulgated on 27 December 1512 in Burgos, Kingdom of Castile (Spain), was the first codified set of laws governing the behavior of Spaniards in the Americas, particularly with regards to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas ('native Caribbean Indians').

Lequios

The Lequios is a group of Hebrews who settled around Ophir, which the Spaniards considered the Philippine islands to be, before it's colonization.

Mailu Island

All the nearby land including the coast of New Guinea was called by the Spaniards Magna Margarita to honour the wife of the king of Spain at that time Philip III, Margaret of Austria.

Mariano Llanera

The Spaniards went in hot pursuit of the insurgents, forcing those from Cabiao to flee to Pampanga, and those from Gapan to hide in San Miguel de Mayumo in Bulacan - San Miguel, Bulacan.

Mexican nobility

The Spaniards respected this system and added to it, resulting in many unions between Aztec and Spanish nobility.

Pamplona, Camarines Sur

Historical references concluded that most Spaniards inhabiting the place came from the province of Pamplona in Spain and thus decided to name their settlement also as "Pamplona".

Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard

At the Battle of Garigliano he single-handedly defended the bridge of the Garigliano against 200 Spaniards, an exploit that brought him such renown that Pope Julius II tried unsuccessfully to entice him into his service.

Pol Amat

The striker won his first major title with the Spaniards at the 2004 Champions Trophy in Lahore.

Red April

“Ayacucho is a strange place. The seat of the Wari culture was here, and then the Chanka people, who never allowed themselves to be subjugated by the Incas. And later were the indigenous uprisings because Ayacucho was the half-way point between Cuzco, the Inca capital, and Lima, the Spaniards’ capital. And independence in Quinua (cf., Quinua, Peru). And Sendero. This place is condemned to be bathed in blood and fire forever, Chacaltana.”(Roncagliolo, p. 245 Spanish edition).

San Juan de Ulúa

Richard Hakluyt's book, The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation (1598–1600), claims Drake and Hawkins were on a private venture, peacefully trading with the local colonial Spaniards in violation of Spanish law, when a Spanish naval fleet arrived.

São Caetano do Sul

Immigrants from many nationalities have settled in São Caetano but the most significant groups are Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Germans and Japanese.

Sulu

The Spaniards introduced Christianity and a political system of church-state dichotomy encountering fierce resistance in the devastating Moro wars from 1578 to 1899.

Tales of the Alhambra

The Alhambra : a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and Spaniards was published in May 1832 in the United States by publishers Lea & Carey and concurrently in England by Henry Colburn.

Thomas Winniffe

After Prince Henry's death Winniffe became chaplain to Prince Charles, but on 7 April 1622, when the Spaniards were overrunning the Electorate of the Palatinate, he gave offence by a sermon denouncing Gondomar, and comparing Spinola with the devil.

Treasure of the Llanganatis

Atahualpa, seeing that the Spaniards cherished gold above all, promised to fill a room with gold in exchange for his freedom.

Túpac Huallpa

Túpac Huallpa and his people may not have understood that the Spaniards were using him to take control of Peru and steal the gold treasures of his country.

Valdir Cardoso

He also split 2008–09 abroad, with Córdoba CF and Standard Liège, meeting the same fate (no appearances whatsoever for the Spaniards).

Vallenato Legend Festival

The natives, scared, escaped to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and knowing that the Spaniards would follow them and would be in need of drinking water, they poisoned the "Sicarare lake".

Veracruz Sporting Club

The club was founded in 1908 by the native Spaniards living in Veracruz in the early 1900s.The first owners were the brothers Ángel and Mariano Rivera.The club played in the old Liga amateur de Veracruz from 1908 when in 1931 they were invited to pay in the Liga amateur del Distrito Federal After clubs México FC and Real Club España left some spots open due to economical problems.

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo (also Tigua Pueblo) is a Puebloan Native American tribal entity in the Ysleta section of El Paso, Texas, comprising a formerly Southern Tiwa-speaking people who were displaced from New Mexico in 1680 and 1681 during the Pueblo Revolt against the Spaniards.


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