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Spanish and retreat
One of their first visits was in 1598 when an expedition of two vessels piloted by John Davis ( English explorer ) attacked a large Spanish Caravel, only to be beaten off and forced to retreat to Ascension Island for repairs.
In October 2010, thousands of Sahrawis fled from El Aaiun, Smara or Bojador to the outskirts of Lemseid ( Gdeim Izik ), raising up a campament of thousands of " jaimas " ( Sahrawi tents ) called the " Dignity camp ", in the biggest Sahrawi movilization since the Spanish retreat.
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.
Observing from Venice, Rousseau hailed the Spanish retreat as " the finest military manoeuvre of the whole century.
The first Spanish attempt to control this area failed in 1524, when Pedro de Alvarado was forced to retreat by Pipil warriors.
He built a tiny navy, and raided Spanish ships in the Gulf of Mexico, and, in 1800, declared war on Spain, briefly capturing the presidio and trading post of San Marcos de Apalache before being forced to retreat.
Again and again, they attempted to lift the siege held by the Spanish and their native allies but each time they were forced to retreat.
In 1646, Thomas Francis was put in command of the French expedition sent south to take the Tuscan forts, after which he was to advance further south to Naples, drive out the Spanish and put himself on the throne of the kingdom ; but the expedition set off late, and when he besieged Orbetello, the supporting French fleet was defeated by the Spanish and he was forced to raise the siege and conduct a difficult retreat, which he performed so poorly that Cardinal Mazarin subsequently despised his command ability, viewed him as incompetent, and declined to appoint him to the expedition that France sent to support the Naples revolt late in 1647 ( this did not stop Mazarin from considering him as a potential candidate for a French-backed King of Naples, though Paris was so slow to move on this that Henry II, Duke of Guise was adopted by the Neapolitans instead ).
In 1646, Thomas was put in command of the French expedition sent south to take the Tuscan forts, after which he was to advance further south to Naples, drive out the Spanish and put himself on the throne of the kingdom ; but the expedition set off late, and when he besieged Orbetello, the supporting French fleet was defeated by the Spanish and he was forced to raise the siege and conduct a difficult retreat, which he performed so poorly that Cardinal Mazarin subsequently despised his command ability, viewed him as incompetent, and declined to appoint him to the expedition that France sent to support the Naples revolt late in 1647 ( this did not stop Mazarin from considering him as a potential candidate for a French-backed King of Naples, though Paris was so slow to move on this that Henry II, Duke of Guise was adopted by the Neapolitans instead ).
Because of scarcity of provisions and threats from the Spanish, the French group were forced to abandon their place of refuge and retreat to Galveston, seeking LaFitte ’ s assistance once again ; thence to New Orleans, and some returned to France.
Spanish pressure intensified, eventually forcing Aguinaldo's forces to retreat to the mountains.
La Barre sent General of Brigade François Jean Baptiste Quesnel with 800 horsemen along the south bank to cut off the Spanish retreat, but this effort failed.
After covering the withdrawal at Céret, de Vives pulled out of the town and Augereau crossed the bridge to harass the Spanish retreat.
" By forcing his adversaries to retreat by way of the Col du Porteille, Dugommier compelled the Spanish to assume a defensive position south of the crest of the Pyrenees in the Alt Emporda.
The battle was over when undisciplined Spanish soldiers dispersed, and began to retreat in the direction of Santa Cruz.
Three of Freire's divisions, 4, 000 horsemen, attempted to clear a route of retreat for the Spanish army.
As the Spanish army streamed away to the south, only Zayas's division remained intact to cover the retreat.
Finally forced to retreat due to lack of food and supplies, Masséna withdrew to the Spanish frontier, allegedly prompting the comment " So, Prince of Essling, you are no longer Massena.
The Spanish were forced to retreat, leaving these areas to the rebels, except for the municipal hall of San Mateo where some Spanish troops had barricaded.
The Spanish troops thus recaptured the rebel positions and surprised Bonifacio in San Mateo, who ordered a general retreat to Balara.
During the calamitous disembarkation in which the Spanish were drawn into a trap by the feigned retreat of the Algerines, Henry Swinburne wrote that the Spaniards would have been " broken and slaughtered to a man ... had not Mr. Acton, the Tuscan commander, cut his cables, and let his ships drive in to shore just as the enemy was coming on us full gallop.
In the 18th century, the Spanish built the Chapultepec Castle, which initially was a summer retreat for viceroys.

Spanish and did
However, these scripts either count di-and tri-graphs as separate letters, as Spanish did with ch and ll until recently, or uses diacritics like Slovak č.
When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, he fled and left Spain, but did not abdicate the throne.
At one point, his Spanish pursuers urinated at the bottom of a tree he was hiding in, but did not discover him.
In 1702 Scarlatti left Naples and did not return until the Spanish domination had been superseded by that of the Austrians.
Daunted by fierce resistance from the Caribs and discouraged by the absence of gold, the Spanish did not settle the island.
Felipillo had secretly urged the local natives to attack the Spanish but they surprisingly desisted and did not believe the dangers they posed.
The withdrawal of the Spanish from valleys of Chile was violent: Almagro authorized his soldiers to ransack the natives ' properties, leaving their soil desolate ; there was not one Spaniard that did not enslave a native for his service.
Spanish Falangist leader José Antonio Primo de Rivera did not believe that corporatism was effective and denounced it as a propaganda ploy, saying " this stuff about the corporative state is another piece of windbaggery ".
A dejected procession, numbering some 4, 000 according to most of the sources, such as Hills or Jackson filed out of the Land Port with Queen Isabella's banner at their head, and led by the Spanish Governor, Diego de Salinas, the Spanish garrison, with their three brass cannon, the religious orders, the city council and all those inhabitants who did not wish to take the oath of allegiance to Charles III as asked by the terms of surrender.
Gibtelecom was also prevented from having roaming agreements with Spanish GSM networks so its mobile phones did not operate in Spain.
The 7th-century Visigothic aristocracy saw itself as bearers of a particular Gothic consciousness and as guardians of old traditions such as Germanic namegiving ; probably these traditions were on the whole restricted to the family sphere ( Hispano-Roman nobles did service for Visigothic nobles already in the 5th century and the two branches of Spanish aristocracy had fully adopted similar customs two centuries later ).
) Spanish has similar pairs for certain verbs, such as ( imperfect and preterite, respectively ) sabía " I knew " vs. supe " I found out ", podía " I was able to " vs. pude " I succeeded ( in doing something )", quería " I wanted to " vs. quise " I tried to ", no quería " I did not want to " vs. no quise " I refused ( to do something )".
There followed an epic struggle against the Spanish that did not end until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
They did not, until the period of Muslim rule, merge with the Spanish population, preferring to remain separate, and indeed the Visigothic language left only the faintest mark on the modern languages of Iberia.
France was only controlling Catalonia and Navarre and could have been definitely expelled from the Iberian peninsula had the Spanish armies attacked again, but the Spanish did not.
But the Spanish did establish a footing in the Far East in the Philippines.
In 1655 Jamaica was conquered by the English, although the Spanish did not relinquish their claim to the island until 1670.
Spanish authorities did not let him stay and he was deported to the United States on 25 December 1916.
The Spanish did not rebuild the city and the location went unrecorded and was forgotten until it was rediscovered through a detailed examination of period letters and documents.
Since it did not have a writing system, when the Spanish conquistadors, when they arrived, wrote the language in their own alphabet without distinguishing long vowels.
The Spanish did not understand this custom.
The typical feudal Spanish economic system did not dominate colonial Paraguay, although the encomienda.
When the Spanish Ambassador asked for pardon for having killed a man, the Pope replied that he did not want to start his reign with such auspices as absolution from homicide, and ordered the appropriate tribunals to observe the law.

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