She knighted Francis Drake after his circumnavigation of the globe from 1577 to 1580, and he won fame for his raids on Spanish ports and fleets.

Her reign is famous for the defeat of the Armada, and for successful raids against the Spanish, such as those on Cádiz in 1587 and 1596, but some historians point to military failures on land and at sea.

The Spanish settled in Jamaica in 1509 and held the island against many privateer raids from their main city, now called Spanish Town, which served as capital of Jamaica from its founding in 1534 until 1872.

By 1800 the Spanish population had reached 25, 000, but Apache and Comanche raids on Hispanic settlers were common until well into the period of U. S. occupation.

Author Mary Romero writes that immigration raids are often carried out at places of gathering and cultural expression such as grocery stores based on the fluency of language of a person ( e. g. being bilingual especially in Spanish ) and skin color of a person.

As a consequence of this Trinidad and Tobago became the focus of Spanish slaving raids, especially to supply Margarita's pearl fisheries.

In the southeast, the English Province of Carolina mounted an expedition against St. Augustine in Spanish Florida that failed, and conducted numerous raids against Spanish-allied natives, decimating their population.

When the Anglo-Spanish Wars intensified after 1585, Elizabeth approved further raids against Spanish ports in the Americas and against shipping returning to Europe with treasure.

Combined with his daring raids against the Spanish and his great victory over them at Cadiz in 1587, he became a famous hero -- his exploits are still celebrated — but England did not follow up on his claims.

Others, the buccaneers, arrived in the mid-to-late 17th century and made attempts at earning a living by farming and hunting on Hispaniola and nearby islands ; pressed by Spanish raids and possibly failure of their means of making a living ( wild herds having been deliberately wiped out by the Spanish ) they turned to a more lucrative occupation.

Grotius's 1604 seminal work on international law, De Iure Praedae ( Of The Law of Prize and Booty ), was an advocate's brief defending Dutch raids on Spanish and Portuguese shipping.

Navajos later used the valley as a staging area for raids on Spanish settlements along the Rio Grande.

In 1704 – 06, Carolina Governor Col. James Moore led colonial militia and Ochese Creek and Yamasee warriors in raids that destroyed the Spanish missions of the Florida interior ; they captured some 10, 000 unarmed ' mission Indians ,' the Timucua and Apalachee, and sold them into slavery.

For the rest of the civil war the island was used as a base for the Nationalist navy and airforce, who mounted raids on the Spanish mainland.

On December 14, 1818, the French privateer Hipólito Bouchard, sailing under the flag of the " United Provinces of Rio de la Plata " ( Argentina ), brought his ships La Argentina and Santa Rosa to within sight of the Mission ; aware that Bouchard ( today known as " California's only pirate ") had recently conducted raids on the settlements at Monterey and Santa Barbara, Comandante Ruíz had sent forth a party of thirty men ( under the leadership of a young Spanish lieutenant named Santiago Argüello ) to protect the Mission at first news of the approach on the 13th.

This Spanish garrison was withered away by frequent raids launched by Sultan Wasit.

In 1755, a force of 1, 900 Spanish soldiers led by the captains Simeón Valdez and Pedro Gastambide was sent to Jolo to extract revenge for the raids by Sultan Muiz ud-Din, but those Spaniards were soundly defeated.

The word “ Ajuramentado ” was coined by the Spanish colonel Juan Arolas after witnessing several such raids while serving with the Jolo garrison.

The Spanish made slave raids to the La Junta de los Ríos, committing cruelties against the native population.

In the early nineteenth century, there was a Spanish mine nicknamed " Old Bat Hole " that was abandoned due to Indian raids.

Facing increasingly bold Spanish privateer raids, the General Assembly of North Carolina colony in April 1745 authorized the construction of " Johnston's Fort " near the mouth of the Cape Fear River.

Money was short, with the family relying upon a relatively small pension from The Hague, the proceeds from family investments in Dutch raids on Spanish shipping, and revenue from pawned family jewellery.

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti ( 26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757 ) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families.

The Spanish and their ' mission Indians ' burned most of the towns along the Chattahoochee after they welcomed Scottish explorer Henry Woodward in 1685.

To counter the early Apache raids on Spanish settlements, presidios were established at Janos ( 1685 ) in Chihuahua and at Fronteras ( 1690 ) in northern Opata country.

It was founded in 1565 by Spanish Conquistador Diego de Villarroel during an expedition from Peru, and was moved to its present site in 1685.

It happened then that Charlotte Christine father, was thus not only the father in law of the Russian tsarevich, but also the father in law of the now Emperor of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI of Austria, ( October 1, 1685 – October 20, 1740, aged 55 ), the would be supposed King of the mighty Spanish Empire during the Spanish Succession War, a European War involving several of the most politically significant West European Powers.

* Charles Swan sails off the coast of Sinaloa and into the Gulf of California during the winter of 1685 – 1686 while unsuccessfully awaiting the Spanish Manila galleon.

* Francisco Herrera the Younger ( 1622 – 1685 ), his son, Spanish painter

In 1685, the Spanish learned that France had established a colony in the area between New Spain and Florida.

The Spanish learned of the French colony in late 1685.

) Members of the Amsterdam community continued to use Spanish as a literary language, and established clubs and libraries for the study of modern Spanish literature, such as the Academia de los Sitibundos ( founded 1676 ) and the Academia de los Floridos ( 1685 ).

The Spanish banking system has been credited as one of the most solid of all western banking systems in coping with the ongoing worldwide liquidity crisis, thanks to the country's conservative banking rules and practices.

Uruguay's early 19th century history was shaped by ongoing fights between the British, Spanish, Portuguese, and other colonial forces for dominance in the Platine region.

Uruguay's early 19th century history was shaped by ongoing fights between the British, Spanish, Portuguese, and colonial forces for dominance in the La Plata basin.

As Wesel functioned as principal supply base of Hendrik van den Bergh's army, the loss of supply forces him to retreat to the Spanish Netherlands, leaving him unable to intervene in the ongoing siege of's-Hertogenbosch.

Several other islands were captured and fortified to prevent Spanish attacks in the ongoing Dutch war for independence from Spain and to exploit timber and salt resources:

At this time the Spanish were still unaware of the death of the previous Sapa Inca ( Cápac ) and had routinely sent two ambassadors to continue ongoing negotiations being held with Titu Cusi.

Spanish Fort Town Center, anchored by Bass Pro Shop, JC Penney, and Kohl's, contributed to the municipality's substantial commercial development, despite having ongoing issues with vacancies.

After halting the American advance, the Spanish resumed their ongoing withdrawal towards Santiago's outer defenses according to their original plans.

In a number of ways, this made the Spaniards another factor in the ongoing political conflicts between rival native peoples, not to mention that Spanish were vastly outnumbered.

Based on the earlier Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache by the German lexicographer Franz Passow ( first published in 1819, fourth edition 1831 ), which in turn was based on Johann Gottlob Schneider's Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, it has served as the basis for all later lexicographical work on the ancient Greek language, such as the ongoing Greek – Spanish dictionary project Diccionario Griego – Español ( DGE ).

The Chickamauga Cherokee engaged in ongoing raids against American settlers, often with British and Spanish military aid.

In the ensuing skirmish the Spanish infantry held its ground, skewering the advancing American regiments with rifle volleys ; however, after an exchange of fire lasting two hours, Rubín, rather than press his advantage, pulled his men from the trenches and resumed his ongoing retreat in the direction of Santiago.

After halting the American advance, the Spanish inexplicably resumed their ongoing withdrawal towards Santiago's outer defenses instead of profiting from the sharp reverse inflicted on the Americans, allowing " American observers unanimously but incorrectly assume their attack had forced the enemy to retreat.

Aside from the ongoing archaeological research on Lenca culture, we can only know the Lenca people from the time of and through their encounters with the Spanish.

La Convivencia (" the Coexistence ") is the period of Spanish history from the Muslim Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the early eighth century until the completion of the Christian Reconquista in the late fifteenth century, when Muslims, Christians and Jews in Moorish Iberia lived in relative peace together within the different kingdoms ( during the same time, however, the Christian reclaiming of land conquered by the Moors was ongoing ).

The slow and hard ongoing process toward acceptance of homosexuality was suddenly interrupted by the Spanish Civil War and Francisco Franco's regime, which precipitated a strong repression of the LGBT community in Spain.

IFK Göteborg won Svenska Serien for the fifth time in a row 1917, but the ongoing war and the Spanish flu led to the dissolution of the competition.

While Morocco and Mauritania found in the answers to the two questions a recognition that their claims are legitimate and historically based, Algeria and the Polisario Front focused on the penultimate paragraph that stated that the court's decision was not to hinder the application of self-determination through the ongoing Spanish referendum.

In 2011, the square has become established as a focal point and a symbol for the ongoing Spanish democracy demonstrations.

The local colony of Audouin's Gulls ( which is a species listed as Near Threatened globally ) is one of the most important in the world and key to the species ongoing recovery in the Spanish Mediterranean.