From October 1784 to September 1786 he was employed by Nepean, who was in charge of the Secret Service relating to the Bourbon Powers, France and Spain, to spy on the French naval arsenals at Toulon and other ports.

From Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, Spain there are night flights on Mondays and Thursdays, with departures just after midnight.

From the time beginning with the incorporation of the Portuguese Empire in 1580 ( lost in 1640 ) until the loss of its American colonies in the 19th century, Spain maintained the largest empire in the world even though it suffered fluctuating military and economic fortunes from the 1640s.

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From 1904 until 1975, Spain occupied the entire territory, which is divided into a northern portion, the Saguia el-Hamra, and a southern two-thirds, known as Río de Oro.

From the end of the 3rd century, Heruls are also mentioned as raiders in Gaul and Spain, together with Saxons, Franks and Alamanni.

From Italy, carnival traditions spread to the Catholic nations of Spain, Portugal, and France.

From Spain and Portugal, they spread with Catholic colonization to the Caribbean and Latin America.

From 1479, it was ruled by the Kingdom of Spain until 1713 and between 1717 – 1718.

From 1936 to 1940, a French detachment was garrisoned in Andorra to prevent influences of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's Spain.

From Vienna, Singer and his wife went to Barcelona, Spain, where Singer was appointed Assistant Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

From 1891 to 1895 Majorca witnessed a major emigration of islanders to mainland Spain and to the Americas.

* From his headquarters at Tarraco ( Tarragona ), Publius Cornelius Scipio, the Roman commander in Spain, launches a combined military and naval assault on the Carthaginian headquarters at Carthago Nova ( modern-day Cartagena ).

From January 1631 Charles I of England engaged in a number of secret agreements with Spain, directed against Dutch sea power.

From its first encounters with Jolo, Spain was met with stiff resistance from a highly organized people under the Sultanate of Sulu, which had been established in 1457 by an Arab born in Johore, Shari ’ ful Hashem Syed Abu Bak ’ r.

* National Road 20 From Paris to Spain

From the beginning of 1721, Philip V of Spain, and the Duke of Orléans had been negotiating the project of three Franco-Spanish marriages in order to cement tense relations between Spain and France.

In the sound era McCarey ventured into feature-film direction, working with many of the biggest stars of the era, including Gloria Swanson ( Indiscreet, 1931 ), Eddie Cantor ( The Kid From Spain, 1932 ), the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ), W. C. Fields ( Six of a Kind, 1934 ), Mae West ( Belle of the Nineties, 1934 ), and Harold Lloyd ( The Milky Way, 1936 ).

From here, the route taken in late April and early May 1876 was a westward loop to the north out into the mid-Atlantic, eventually turning due east towards Europe to touch land at Vigo in Spain towards the end of May.

From Cubagua Orellana decided to return to Spain to obtain from the Crown the governorship over the discovered lands, which he named New Andalusia.

Lucas's poem " Spain 1809 " ( in From Many Times and Lands, 1953 ), the story of a Spanish village woman's courage during the French occupation, was turned into the play A Kind of Justice by Margaret Wood ( 1966 ).

From its earliest days, the King David Hotel hosted royalty: the dowager empress of Persia, queen mother Nazli of Egypt and King Abdullah I of Jordan stayed at the hotel, and three heads of state forced to flee their countries took up residence there: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, forced to abdicate in 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, driven out by the Italians in 1936, and King George II of Greece who set up his government in exile at the hotel after the Nazi occupation of his country in 1942.

From the rule of the Flavian Dynasty until the Year Of The Five Emperors, the Roman Empire experienced an extended period of internal peace and harmony later known as the time of The Five Good Emperors-Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.

From the first century A. D. dates a fresco at the Baths of Trajan in Rome depicting a bird's eye view of an ancient city.

From the back of the barn it was a simple matter to reach Black's house without using the street.

From the way the wound in his head was itching, Dan knew that it would heal.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

From the convulsive quivers of the man's shoulders it was plain he had resumed the weeping.

From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.

From being a hated tyrant and madman he was now the symbol of all that was noblest and best in the history of Sweden.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.

From the outside it was an ordinary enough house of the gentry.

From there on, each Junior was going to be judged individually.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.

From these dosage isopleths it can be seen that an area of over 34,000 square miles was covered.