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* Esdaile, Charles J. Spain in the Liberal Age: From Constitution to Civil War, 1808 – 1939 ( 2000 ) excerpt and text search
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* Esdaile, Charles J. Spain in the Liberal Age: From Constitution to Civil War, 1808-1939 ( 2000 ) excerpt and text search
* Esdaile, Charles S. ( 2000 ) Spain in the Liberal Age: From Constitution to Civil War, 1808 – 1939 ISBN 0-631-14988-0
Charles Esdaile says 5, 000, 000-7, 000, 000 died overall, including civilians.
Historian Charles J. Esdaile describes Machado's " two Spains " as " the one clerical, absolutist and reactionary, and the other secular, constitutional and progressive ," but views this picture of the first Spain as " far too simplistic ", in that it lumps the enlightened absolutism of the 18th century Bourbon monarchs with the reactionary politics that simply wanted to restore the " untrammeled enjoyment " of the privileges of the Church and aristocracy.

Charles and War
Parker, along with Garrison and Charles Sumner, showed a magnificent moral bravery when facing mobs mobilized in defense of the Mexican War and slavery.
* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
* Hamilton, Charles D. Sparta's Bitter Victories: Politics and Diplomacy in the Corinthian War.
* 1640 – Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
The Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, ( marking the end of hostilities in World War I ), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured on newsreel.
During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.
In 1806 Francis II ( now Francis I of Austria ) named the Archduke Charles, already a field marshal, as Commander in Chief of the Austrian army and Head of the Council of War.
When Austria joined the ranks of the allies during the War of the Sixth Coalition, Charles was not given a command and the post of commander-in-chief of the allied Grand Army of Bohemia went to the Prince of Schwarzenberg.
Other actors that De Palma has worked with on more than one occasion include Jennifer Salt ( The Wedding Party, Hi, Mom !, and Sisters ), Charles Durning ( Hi, Mom !, Sisters, and The Fury ), Al Pacino ( Scarface and Carlito's Way ), John Lithgow ( Obsession, Blow Out and Raising Cain ), Sean Penn ( Casualties of War and Carlito's Way ), Amy Irving ( Carrie, The Fury and Casualties of War ( uncredited voice-over )), and John Travolta ( Carrie, Blow Out ).
The 18th-century author Charles Johnson claimed that Teach was for some time a sailor operating from Jamaica on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War, and that " he had often distinguished himself for his uncommon boldness and personal courage ".
Its importance waned somewhat when the French king, Charles VII, took the city at the end of the Hundred Years ' War and the Adour changed course shortly afterwards, leaving Bayonne without its access to the sea.
With the defeat of Charles I ( 1625 – 1649 ) in the Civil War the Puritan pressure, exercised through a much-changed Parliament, had increased.
During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.
The development of strong administrative structures, in particular those related to extraction of taxes, is closely associated with the intense warfare between predatory European states in the 17th and 18th centuries, or in Charles Tilly's famous formulation: " War made the state and the state made war ".
After the English Civil War and the execution of Charles I, the republic's existence was initially declared by " An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth " adopted by the Rump Parliament, on 19 May 1649.
Charles was defeated in the First Civil War ( 1642 – 45 ), after which Parliament expected him to accept its demands for a constitutional monarchy.
This provoked the Second Civil War ( 1648 – 49 ) and a second defeat for Charles, who was subsequently captured, tried, convicted, and executed for high treason.
* 1757 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
The " European War " became known as " The Great War ", and it was not until 1920, in the book " The First World War 1914 – 1918 " by Charles à Court Repington, that the term " First World War " was used as the official name for the conflict.
With the death of the infirm and childless Charles II of Spain on 1 November 1700, the succession of the Spanish throne and subsequent control over her empire once again embroiled Europe in war – the War of the Spanish Succession.

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The New York franchise is headed by Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson.
When Mickey Charles Mantle, the New York Yankees' man of muscle, drives a home run 450 feet into the bleachers, his feat touches upon the sublime.
* In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in an aircraft ( between New York City and Paris ).
Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).
A Dictionary of Hymnology, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
John Young and Charles Duke train at the Rio Grande Gorge in New Mexico.
Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.
An important 19th Century American chef was Charles Ranhofer of Delmonico's Restaurant in New York City.
* 1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.
Charles Corydon Hall, a New England engineer, arrived in Alexandria to help manage a steel mill just as its natural gas supply was exhausted around the turn of the 19th century.
Ben Franklin's mother, Abiah Folger, was born into a Puritan family among those that fled to Massachusetts to establish a purified Congregationalist Christianity in New England, when King Charles I of England began persecuting Puritans.
John Robinson in " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ) has heavily criticised Charles ' position and accepted apostolic authorship, dating John's Gospel before the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
Charles J. Urstadt, the first Chairman and CEO of the BPCA, noted in an August 19, 2007 op-ed piece in the New York Post that the aggregate figure of funds transferred to the City of New York is above $ 1. 4 billion, with the BPCA continuing to contribute $ 200 million a year.
In the early 1970s, however, the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau ( now NYC & Company, the official marketing and tourism organization for New York City ), under the leadership of its president, Charles Gillett, began promoting " the Big Apple " for the city.
Charles appeared in the John Godber comedy play Teechers, in which he swapped in and out of various roles, at the Arts Theatre, London, and at the Edinburgh Festival ( 1989 ), and he played Idle Jack in the pantomime Dick Whittington, at the Hull New Theatre ( 1997 ).
* Charles Proteus Steinmetz: A Biography, John Winthrop Hammond, New York Century Co., 1924.
Charles Henry Alston ( November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977 ) was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem.
In the beginning Charles Alston's mural work was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, the latter who he met when they did mural work in New York.
* Charles Alston: Artist and Teacher, 1990, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York
In 1667, New Englanders sent to King Charles 10 barrels of cranberries, 3 barrels of codfish and some Indian corn as a means of appeasement for his anger over their local coining of the Pine Tree shilling.
It also gave impetus to the never-ending treasure hunts conducted on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, in Suffolk County, Long Island in New York where Gardiner's Island is located, Charles Island in Milford, Connecticut ; the Thimble Islands in Connecticut and on the island of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy.

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