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Spaniards and built
In 1752, the Spaniards built the fort of San Fernando de Omoa.
That year, the Spaniards built the presidio of San Marcos de Apalache on Apalachee Bay.
The Spaniards were never secure in Jolo, so by 1878, they had fortified Jolo with a perimeter wall and tower gates ; built inner forts called Puerta Blockaus, Puerta España, and Puerta Alfonso XII ; and two outer fortifications named Princesa de Asturias and Torre de la Reina.
Ponce had the best road in Puerto Rico, running from Ponce to San Juan, which had been built by the Spaniards for military purposes.
This can be explained by the presence of a dike called the Spanjaardsdijk or Spaniards Dike which was built before or during the Eighty Years ' War.
A decade later, the Spaniards built their own fortress between the Dender and the Scheldt.
In 1898 the Spaniards built the Arecibo Lighthouse which was automated in 1964 and is in use today.
The Spanish influence can still be seen in the massive churches and other buildings that the Spaniards built for the spiritual and social welfare of the people.
Spaniards built a mission at Hawikuh in 1629.
' A historic structure built by the Eugster family ( probably Spaniards long returned to Spain ) about a hundred years ago, it was the office of the Marcos Foundation, a cultural heritage structure.
Although Doria was ambitious and harsh, he was a patriot and successfully opposed Emperor Charles's repeated attempts to have a citadel built in Genoa and garrisoned by Spaniards ; neither blandishments nor threats could win him over to the scheme.
Fort Bourtange was initially built during the Eighty Years ' War ( c. 1568 – 1648 ) when William I of Orange wanted to control the only road between Germany and the city of Groningen which was controlled by the Spaniards.
It is quite French Flanders, their provisions come from Holland, the Hotel de Ville was built by the Spaniards, the carillons are perpetually sounding, & religion is supreme.
The name may be in reference to the large shoals of pigeons that can be seen during the spring and autumn months atop Palomar Mountain, or reminiscent of an old pigeon-raising facility built there by the Spaniards.
The Fort of Santa Barbara, built by the Spaniards in the colonial era, was the site of the execution of US filibuster William Walker in Trujillo, and his remains are buried in the city's graveyard.
The Spaniards built Mexico City over Tenochtitlan.
* Punta Higüeras Light was built by the Spaniards in the early 1890s and rebuilt after an earthquake in 1921.
In 1610 a fort was built to ward off the fierce Zuaque and Tehueco Native Americans, who constantly harassed the Spaniards.
It earned the nickname The Walled City because of the thick defensive walls surrounding the fortification built by the Spaniards in the late 16th century to protect it from foreign invasions.
There were not many to copy from as Vigan or Ciudad Fernandina, as it was earlier named, was amongst the earliest settlements built by the Spaniards in the country.
To improve the economic and social condition of the place, the Spaniards introduced and built roads and bridges.
Tourists also visit the Sulvec Watchtower, a brick tower that was built by Spaniards to warn the town of pirates coming from offshore.
Using alternately the tactics of guerrilla and open warfare, they exhausted the Spanish Army of more than a quarter million soldiers and traversed all the island, even through the military trails, walls and fences built by the Spanish Army with the purpose of stopping them and dealing with an overwhelming technical and numerical superiority of the Spaniards.
There is indeed not a house in the city that has not been made of this stone, or at least the houses built by the Spaniards .” Today, only the stones that were too large to be easily moved remain at the site.

Spaniards and main
After the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, Quechua continued to see considerable usage, as the " general language " and main means of communication between the Spaniards and the indigenous population, including for the Roman Catholic Church as a language of evangelisation.
The Spaniards also influenced much of the Puerto Rican culture which explains the Spanish main dialect, and the Spanish arquitecture that surrounds the city.
The Spaniards decided to keep the main north-south and east-west roads that divided the city into four and the boundaries of the city were set with an area of 180 hectares, which was divided into 100 blocks.
The town of Cajamarca was mostly empty except for a few hundred acllas ; the Spaniards occupied long buildings on the main plaza.
Wellington manned the fortifications with " secondary troops "— 25, 000 Portuguese militia, 8, 000 Spaniards and 2, 500 British marines and artillerymen — keeping his main field army of British and Portuguese regulars dispersed in order to rapidly meet a French assault on any point of the Lines.
When Girard's main column came within about 50 metres ( 55 yd ) of the Spaniards, the skirmishers split to the left and right and the battalions behind them opened fire.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, during the Spanish Colonial period, the main industries were mining and livestock production, run by Spaniards.
The Spaniards occupied the southern part of the island where they had their main settlement the town of Ciudad del Rosario.
Spaniards have adventurous taste, and this is the main factor that destroys nature as the symbol of the beauty.
The main historical element in Higüey is the Cathedral, which holds the famous painting of the " Virgen de la Altagracia ", brought by the Spaniards in the 15th century.
From colonial texts it is known that silver mines were open in colonial times by the Spaniards from Mexico to Argentina, the main ones, being those of Tasco, Mexico and Potosí in Bolivia.
Area around the main square of the colonial town of Suchitoto, with its church built by the Spaniards in the 1700s

Spaniards and centre
Ernst deployed his force behind a ditch, hoping to fight a delaying action, but the Spaniards were already in great strength across the bridge and charged right home, piercing his centre.
The revolutionary army decided to strike for independence and marched on to Guanajuato, a major colonial mining centre governed by Spaniards and criollos.
When the Spaniards first visited the Islands of Titicaca and Loati, in 1534 and 1538, the Andean Cosmovision were abandoned and the Dominicans made Copacabana the centre of their missions.
Under Isabella of Naples and Bona, the town had been a centre of literary culture ; but under the Spaniards it declined.

Spaniards and point
The Spaniards abandoned the area at some point before 1572.
Upon its discovery by Spaniards, it was rapidly disseminated to other adequate climate areas of the world, to the point that 18th-century taxonomists mistook China for its place of origin and called it " Capsicum chinense "— the Chinese pepper.
With the reduccion, the Spaniards attempted to tame the Filipinos through Christian indoctrination in a quite novel settlement pattern using the convento / casa real / plaza complex as a focal point
The natives kept the gifts but, united under the leadership of Michimalonco, attacked the Spaniards and were on the point of overwhelming them.
The Tlaxcalans could have crushed the Spaniards at this point or turned them over to the Aztecs.
It is to point out that the Spaniards only managed to cause very limited damage to a very small number of defenses, and most of the cannons and artillery, as well as the buildings and houses in El Callao, were perfectly intact after the battle.

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