Town after town subsequently fell, including Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp ; by the end of the campaign Villeroi's army had been driven from most of the Spanish Netherlands.

These first settlements were abandoned after attacks by Spanish privateers, but English privateers often used the Cayman Islands as a base and in the 18th century they became an increasingly popular hideout for pirates, even after the end of legitimate privateering in 1713.

Depending on what terms one uses to define the end, the movement extended until 1821 ( when the Spanish were expelled from mainland Chile ) or 1826 ( when the last Spanish troops surrendered and Chiloé was incorporated to the Chilean republic ).

A series of rebellions during the 19th century failed to end Spanish rule.

Therefore, by the end of the decade, some Cubans were inspired by the successes of Simón Bolívar, despite the fact that the Spanish Constitution was restored in 1820.

Prior to the end of the slave trade and widespread abolition, when indigenous labour was unavailable, slaves were often imported to the Americas, first by the Spanish Empire, and later by the Dutch, French and British.

The blacks killed or enslaved the native males and married the females, and within a generation they constituted a population of zambos that resisted Spanish authority until the end of the century and afterwards managed to retain a great deal of political and cultural independence.

The period after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 brought new difficulties for Elizabeth that lasted the fifteen years until the end of her reign.

At the very end of the inter-war period in Europe came the Spanish Civil War.

At the end of the year, concerned by Francisco Franco's Falangist uprising, ( supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ), Orwell decided to go to Spain to take part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.

There followed an epic struggle against the Spanish that did not end until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

In Spain proper, this marked the end of the second Spanish bourgeois revolution.

By the end of his life, he could converse in English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Polish, Italian, Greek, Latin, Russian, Arabic, and Turkish as well as German.

The music is a bit infantile, plain, spirited ; but in the end, the people, our Spanish people, are something of all that.

At the very end of the show, in " Court Charades ", the Inquisitors are caught by surprise when a defendant ( who is also a judge from another court ) in session at the Old Bailey says: " Blimey, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!

* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome ; some consider this the end of the Renaissance.

In Modern Catalan, as in modern Spanish, sí is usually used as a response, although the language retains the word oi, akin to òc, which is sometimes used at the end of yes-no questions and in higher register also as a positive response.

From these contacts the Paraguayans came to realize that Spanish dominance in South America was coming to an end, and that they, and not the Spaniards, held the real power.

Spanish uses an inverted question mark at the beginning of a question and the normal question mark at the end, as well as an inverted exclamation mark at the beginning of an exclamation and the normal exclamation mark at the end.

After a pause to assess Henry IV's sincerity, Clement VIII braved Spanish displeasure, and in the autumn of 1595 he solemnly absolved Henry IV, thus putting an end to the thirty years ' religious war in France.

It was resumed during the War of Spanish Succession and in 1704 set on a permanent basis, remaining until the end of the Ancien regime.

At the end of 1931, Beauchamp, Barth, Rickenbacker and with several other individuals banded together and formed the Ro-Pat-In Corporation ( elektRO-PATent-INstruments ) in order to manufacture and distribute electrically amplified musical instruments, with an emphasis upon their newly-developed A-25 Hawaiian Guitar, often referred to as the " Frying Pan " lap-steel electric guitar as well as an Electric Spanish ( standard ) model and companion amplifiers.

Independence Day is the appropriate date as a symbolical reminder of the American article of faith that governments are instituted among men to secure to them certain inalienable rights, the first of which is life, and when any government becomes subversive of that end, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.

Britain began designing the ship in 1956 but got nowhere until the American government decided to end a ban on sharing military secrets with Britain that had been imposed after Fuchs blabbed.

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

When two of the founders of that society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, moved to India at the end of that year, he was constituted as the President of the American body.

To be more exact, one acre is 90. 75 percent of a long by wide American football field ( without the end zones ).

Moreover, several organizations ( e. g., The American Society for Microbiology ( ASM ), American Public Health Association ( APHA ) and the American Medical Association ( AMA )) have called for restrictions on antibiotic use in food animal production and an end to all nontherapeutic uses.

The figurative style of his large bronzes is perceived as an important precursor to the greater simplifications of Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, and his serene classicism set a standard for European ( and American ) figure sculpture until the end of World War II.

While in the view of most American academics the two were as diametrically opposed as good and evil, Sakharov believed that in this " tragic confrontation of two outstanding people ," both deserved respect, because " each of them was certain he had right on his side and was morally obligated to go to the end in the name of truth.

At the end of the 1900 season, the American League removed itself from baseball's National Agreement ( the formal understanding between the NL and the minor leagues ).

Eager to end the case without further scandal, Chaplin's lawyers agreed to a cash settlement of $ 600, 000 — the largest awarded by American courts at that time.

The political scientist Michael Barkun discussing the usage of this term in contemporary American culture holds that a conspiracy theory is a belief which explains an event as the result of a secret plot by exceptionally powerful and cunning conspirators to achieve a malevolent end.

He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars then raging in several Central American countries.

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

The abrupt end of the American Lend-Lease program in August 1945 almost caused a crisis.

* French-derived words that in American English end with-or and-er, such as color or center, retain British spellings ( colour, honour and centre ).

A notable weapon developed towards the end of the American Civil War by the Union was the Spencer carbine.

In the American game, roqueting a ball out of bounds or running a hoop out of bounds causes the turn to end, and balls that go out of bounds are replaced only nine inches from the boundary rather than a yard as in association croquet.

The Americans feared the Soviet expansion of Communism, but for a Latin American country to ally openly with the USSR was regarded as unacceptable, given the Soviet-American enmity since the end of World War II in 1945.

Table showing values of K for structural columns of various end conditions ( adapted from Manual of Steel Construction, 8th edition, American Institute of Steel Construction, Table C1. 8. 1 )

The main trend regarding the history of U. S. foreign policy since the American Revolution is the shift from non-interventionism before and after World War I, to its growth as a world power and global hegemon during and since World War II and the end of the Cold War in the 20th century.

To end the opposition from labor unions ( which wanted no training programs started when so many of their men were unemployed ) Roosevelt chose Robert Fechner, vice president of the American Machinists Union, as director of the corps.

" However, despite popular belief, the name was not meant to insult the Kennedy family, but according to Biafra, " to bring attention to the end of the American Dream ".