According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

Leuven fell on 25 May 1706 ; three days later, the Allies entered Brussels, the capital of the Spanish Netherlands.

The word " chocolate " entered the English language from Spanish.

The original Berber name, Anfa ( meaning: " hill " in English ), was used by the locals, and Berber-speaking, city dwellers until the French occupation army entered the city in 1907 and adopted the Spanish name, Casablanca.

French armies entered Spain in order to attack Portugal, but then seized Spanish fortresses and took over the kingdom by surprise.

Playing cards first entered Europe in the late 14th century, probably from Mamluk Egypt, with suits ( sets of cards with matching designs ) very similar to the tarot suits of Swords, Staves, Cups and Coins ( also known as disks or pentacles ), and which are still used in traditional Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese decks.

Playing cards first entered Europe in the late 14th century, probably from Mamluk Egypt, with suits very similar to the tarot suits of Swords, Staves, Cups and Coins ( also known as disks, and pentacles ) and those still used in traditional Italian, Spanish and Portuguese decks.

Many troops from North America were reassigned to participate in further British actions in the West Indies, including the capture of Spanish Havana when Spain belatedly entered the conflict on the side of France, and a British expedition against French Martinique in 1762.

That word came from imbarrare, " to block " or " to bar ", which is a combination of in -, " in ", with barra, " bar " ( from the Vulgar Latin barra, which is of unknown origin ).< sup > 11 </ sup > The problem with this theory is that the first known usage of the word in Italian was by Bernardo Davanzati ( 1529 – 1606 ), long after the word had entered Spanish .< sup > 12 </ sup > Thus, modern scholars believe that the Italian word actually came from the Spanish one .< sup > 13 </ sup >

* طوبة " brick "; Sahidic to: be ; Bohairic to: bi ; this subsequently entered Catalan and Spanish ( via Andalusi Arabic ) as tova and adobe respectively, the latter of which was borrowed by American English.

The Germans made it clear that if Spain entered the war, Franco would have to promise at a minimum, extraterritorial naval bases in Morocco and the Canary Islands to the Reich in exchange for which the Germans would reward Spain with various British and French colonies in Africa ; Franco rejected the German preconditions which he saw as interfering with Spanish sovereignty, and stayed neutral.

The coastal villages and towns of Italy, Spain and Mediterranean islands were frequently attacked by them and long stretches of the Italian and Spanish coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants ; after 1600 Barbary corsairs occasionally entered the Atlantic and struck as far north as Iceland.

On October 22, Waterhouse entered the port of La Guaira flying the Spanish flag.

Around 1300 a new group, the Mayoid entered Trinidad and remained the dominant culture until Spanish settlement.

On June 24 the Spanish entered Vilcabamba to find it deserted and the Sapa Inca gone.

He followed this trail for a short distance west of the Green River, but when the Spanish Trail entered the rugged rocky region that we today call the Sinbad Reef and charted a route around this feature.

In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, clubs in the Republican area of Spain entered the Copa de la España Libre, with Levante FC beating their city rivals Valencia CF 1 – 0 in the final.

In 1597, Spanish soldiers disguised as peasants entered the city and mounted a surprise attack.

The Santa Barbara Channel received its name from Spanish explorer Sebastian Vizcaino when he sailed over the channel waters in 1602 ; he entered the channel on December 4, the day of the feast of Santa Barbara.

Both men denied that the film was about Spain, but when it was entered for the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966, an objection from the Spanish government caused it to be withdrawn and it was shown out of competition.

French, Spanish, enslaved Africans, and French-Canadians from Acadia expelled after the Seven Years War won by Great Britain, had all entered the area by the end of the 18th century.

1822-1840 French Canadian trappers Etienne Provost, Francois Leclerc, and Antoinne Robidoux entered the Uintah basin by way of the Old Spanish trail and made their fortunes by trapping the many beaver and trading with the Uintah tribe.

In 1910 Spanish clubs played in two rival cup competitions and Sociedad de Futbol entered the Copa UECF as Vasconia de San Sebastian.

These may be quasi-military, as when in November 1975 the Moroccan government organized the " green march " of citizens to cross the border into the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara to claim the territory for Morocco-all at the same time as Moroccan forces entered the territory clandestinely.

Flora MacDonald had a large family of sons, who mostly entered the army or navy, and two daughters.

In April Austria's navy was on its way to attack Copenhagen and Palmerston saw the Austrian ambassador and informed him that Britain could not allow their navy to sail through the English Channel if their intent was to attack Denmark, and if it entered the Baltic the result would be war with Britain.

Ulloa entered the navy in 1733.

He was peered and entered the council of state for the navy in 1810.

After leaving the university he entered public life as a servant of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, afterwards becoming deputy-treasurer of the navy and then a commissioner of the navy, and being specially commended for his labours on behalf of naval administration.

Méryon's mother brought him up, but died when he was still young, and Méryon entered the French navy, and in the corvette " Le Rhin " made the voyage round the world.

Richard Howe entered the navy in the Severn, one of the squadron sent into the south seas with George Anson in 1740.

Unable to enter the elite naval schools, he entered the navy as a volontaire in 1768.

Just over a week later, entered the navy yard at that port to have her hull scraped.

Carteret was the son of Elias de Carteret and Elizabeth Dumaresq of Jersey, who both died in 1640 ( George dropped the " de " from his surname Carteret when he entered the English navy, concerned that it sounded too French ).

George Anson entered the navy in February 1712, and by rapid steps became lieutenant in 1716, commander in 1722, and post-captain in 1724.

Guichen entered the navy in 1730 as " garde de la Marine ," the first rank in the corps of royal officers.

George Pocock entered the navy in 1718, serving aboard under the patronage of his maternal uncle, Captain Streynsham Master ( 1682 – 1724 ).

Reinhard Scheer entered the navy on 22 April 1879 aged 15 as a cadet.

His education at Westminster School was interleaved with periods of training on board British warships, and on 14 January 1804, at the age of 12, he entered the navy as a First-Class Volunteer, embarking on the storeship HMS Camel for the West Indies.

Fisher, having entered the navy penniless and unknown, was delighted.

In 1793 he entered the French navy.

These entered the navy beginning in 1858, on the verge of the Civil War.

He began writing while still in his teens, but he was intended for the army, and entered at Sandhurst, but receiving no commission, he left his country and in 1825 went as a midshipman to the Mexican expedition, was taken prisoner and joined the Mexican navy.

Greece entered World War II with a navy consisting of 2 battleships, 1 armoured cruiser, 14 destroyers, and six submarines.

George had a younger brother Richard ( 1741 – 1817 ), who entered the navy and was made an admiral in 1799.

The navy and air force played a role in the Battle of the Atlantic after mid-1942, but more importantly, Brazil also contributed with an infantry division that entered combat on the Italian Front in 1944.

He entered the navy in 1780 and was later engaged in the unsuccessful operations against Gibraltar in 1782, and afterwards in the suppression of Algerine pirates.