Pitt urged that such a clear threat should be met by a pre-emptive strike against Spain's navy and her colonies-with emphasis on speed to prevent Spain bringing the annual Manila galleon safely to harbour.

The sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbour provided the trigger for the Spanish – American War, in which Spain's aging navy fared disastrously.

However, commentators pointed out that Spain's recovery was fragile, that the public debt was growing quickly, that troubled regional banks may need large bailouts, growth prospects were poor and therefore limiting revenue and that the central government has limited control over the spending of the regional governments.

Since it was feared at the time that any hostile action by the natives against the few burgeoning outposts might break Spain's tenuous hold on Alta California, the fathers quickly buried the San Juan Capistrano Mission bells.

He quickly became interested in the world of fashion design and began sketching for leading Spanish fashion houses, which soon led to an apprenticeship with Spain's most renowned couturier, Cristóbal Balenciaga.

Given Alfonso's maternal membership in Spain's titled aristocracy ( his mother, María de la Piedad de Yturbe y Scholtz-Hersmendorff, was the Marquesa de Belvís de las Navas, and his paternal kinship to the royal courts of Europe, the hotel quickly proved to be popular with vacationing members of Europe's social elites for its casual but discreet luxury.

Spain's ancien regime military institutions, however, quickly unravelled in the following months, eclipsed by the growing scale of the war, crippled by the infusion of untrained conscripts, and caught up in the competing designs of the juntas.

Spain's unemployment rate hit 17. 4 % at the end of March, with two million people lost their jobs ; with the oversized building and housing related industries contributing greatly to the rising unemployment numbers.

Secondary conversion can greatly expand a movement's influence, particularly after a conquest, such as the Muslim Moorish conquest of Spain and Catholic Spain's conquests in Latin America.

As a result of the capture of this key fortress, Spain's situation along the Spanish-Dutch border worsens greatly.

Juan Carlos followed a foreign policy during the first decade of his kingship coined Reencounter and Reconciliation, which greatly improved Spain's standing on the world stage.

Spain's neutrality in World War I greatly benefited Spanish industry and commerce, but those benefits were not reflected in the workers ' salaries.

However, since the 70 ´ s the Canarian emigration has decreased and since the early 80s, with the improvement of the Islands ' economy ( and Spain's in general ), the Canarian emigration has fallen greatly ( leaving behind the Canarian emigration to Latin America, which in the twentieth century ( from the 1900s until 1970 ) became to the archipelago in the second most important Autonomous Community of Spain in the number of immigrants in that place after Galicia, being reduced from the 70 to the third Spanish region in number of immigrant in Latin America after Madrid and Galicia, with the combination of Canarian emigration to Europe and Latin America and from the 80's, with the reduction of Canarian emigration ), but with the worsening of the Venezuelan economy, many Venezuelan that are children and grandchildren of Canarian immigrants, so as many of the own Canaries who lived in Venezuela, have returned to the Canary Islands ( although many of them returned to Venezuela since, at least, January 2011, due to economic crisis and economic problems that start has to be in Spain ).

While sugar cane dramatically increased Spain's earnings on the island, large numbers of the newly imported slaves fled into the nearly impassable mountain ranges in the island's interior, joining the growing communities of cimarrónes — literally, ' wild animals '.

This increased military power appeared to be directed principally to thwart Spain's policy objectives, as witnessed by the Dutch interventions in Germany in 1614 and 1619, and the Dutch alliance with the enemies of Spain in the Mediterranean, like Venice and the Sultan of Morocco.

After Portugal ’ s unsuccessful 2002 World Cup campaign, Andrade was snapped up by Spain's Deportivo de La Coruña, in a move that cost the Galicians € 12 million with the possibility of being increased to € 13M ( goalkeeper Nuno Espírito Santo was also part of the deal, for € 3M ).

Consequently he was named in the Portuguese squad for Euro 1996, being transferred after this tournament to Spain's FC Barcelona, for the highest amount paid for a player in the position in the world.

BBVA, Spain's second-largest bank by market value, took a " similar amount " to the EUR11 billion it had borrowed in the first 3-year LTRO tender, a spokesman said.

The Spanish trade of goods and precious metals was threatened until the mid-18th century by Spain's colonial rivals who seized islands as bases along the Spanish Main and in the Spanish West Indies.

Spain's mineral wealth and access to metals made it an important source of raw material during the early metal ages.

Spain's alliance with the French pitched them into direct conflict with the British, and in 1762 a British expedition of five warships and 4, 000 troops set out from Portsmouth to capture Cuba.

Francisco de Orellana, yet another lieutenant of Francisco Pizarro from the Spanish city of Trujillo, put down the native rebellion and in 1537 reestablished this city, which a century later would become one of Spain's principal ports in South America.

Spain's present languages, its religion, and the basis of its laws originate from this period.

Rising inflation, financially draining wars in Europe, the ongoing aftermath of the expulsion of the Jews and Moors from Spain, and Spain's growing dependency on the gold and silver imports, combined to cause several bankruptcies that caused economic crisis in the country, especially in heavily burdened Castile.

The period of time from 1834 until 1843 is known as Spain's third bourgeois revolution.

Despite Mary's marriage to Philip, England did not benefit from Spain's enormously lucrative trade with the New World.

* Picual, from southern Spain ( province of Jaén ), is the most widely cultivated olive in Spain, comprising about 50 % of Spain's olive production and around 20 % of world olive production.

Ports on each coast and a trail between them handled much of Spain's colonial trade from which the inhabitants of the port cities prospered.

According to the growth rates post 2006, noticeable progress from these figures happened until early 2008, when the ' global financial crisis ' burst Spain's property bubble.

Among these, according to the Financial Times, was Spain's rapidly growing trade deficit, which had reached a staggering 10 % of the country's GDP by the summer of 2008, the " loss of competitiveness against its main trading partners " and, also, as a part of the latter, an inflation rate which had been traditionally higher than the one of its European partners, back then especially affected by house price increases of 150 % from 1998 and a growing family indebtedness ( 115 %) chiefly related to the Spanish Real Estate boom and rocketing oil prices.

The estimation of the IMF was proven to be somewhat too pessimistic, as Spain's GDP sank less than that of most advanced economies in 2009 and by the first quarter of 2010 had already emerged from the recession.

Spain has been an effective example of transition from dictatorship to democracy, as shown in the many trips that Spain's King and Prime Ministers have made to the region.

This production of large coinage exploded as silver from Spain's colonies in the Americas flooded the European economy.

* Perhaps from Spanish, for its don-like gravity ; the donkey was also known as " the King of Spain's trumpeter "

The mission system arose in part from the need to control Spain's ever-expanding holdings in the New World.

He joined the board of La Caixa, Spain's largest savings bank, in 1984, and served as President of the board from 1987 to 1999.

Copa del Rey was Spain's football National Championship from 1903 until the foundation of the Campeonato de Liga — League Championship — in 1928.

A 2008 book by Spanish writer José Rey Ximena claims that Howard was on a top-secret mission for Churchill to dissuade Francisco Franco, Spain's authoritarian dictator and head of state, from joining the Axis powers.

The cumulative crises and disruptions of invasion, revolution and restoration led to the independence of most of Spain's American colonies and the independence of Brazil from Portugal.

* AlejandroSanz4EnglishSpeakers A collection of translated songs from one of Spain's most famous singers.

Both were intended to protect New Spain's northern frontier from marauding Comanches.

Philip II of Spain's reinforcement of the strategic corridor from Italy north along the Rhine added to these fears, and political discontent grew.

He also ruled the Spanish Netherlands and Spain's overseas empire, stretching from the Americas to the Spanish East Indies.

He also founded the newspaper La Madre de Familia, in which he promised " to defend women from the tyranny of men " and La Fraternidad, Spain's first communist newspaper.

Hydrographic offices evolved from naval heritage and are usually found within national naval structures, for example Spain's Instituto Hidrográfico de la Marina.