That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

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

He successfully argued that the Africans, who had seized control of a Spanish ship on which they were being transported illegally as slaves, should not be extradited or deported to Cuba ( a Spanish colony where slavery was legal ) but should be considered free.

In 1629 a Spanish force sent to clear the islands of the area of foreign settlement seized St. Kitts in 1629 but the English settlement was rebuilt following the peace between England and Spain in 1630.

The Bahamian wreckers drove the Spanish away from their wrecked ships, and even attacked the Spanish salvagers and seized goods the Spanish had already recovered from the wrecks.

A Spanish invasion fleet set out for the Bahamas, but was diverted to Pensacola, Florida when it was seized by the French.

Spanish and French forces seized the Turks in 1706, but Bermudian forces expelled them four years later in what was probably Bermuda's only independent military operation.

During the War of the Spanish Succession the Danes supported the French colonies, and allowed the French to sell British ships seized as prizes in Charlotte Amalie.

In 1523, Jean Fleury seized two Spanish treasure ships carrying Aztec treasures

During the war with Spain, Newport seized fortunes of Spanish and Portuguese treasure in fierce sea battles in the West Indies as a privateer for Queen Elizabeth I.

| 6 | Before that, Tunisia was under the Ottoman Turks who had seized lasting control in 1574 after a brief Spanish occupation.

Following the strategy applied in Portobelo, the British then destroyed the castle, and seized their guns and two sloops Spanish coastguard, to go to the point after the meeting of the British forces in Portobelo itself.

Asserting their claim of exclusive sovereignty and navigation rights, the Spanish force seized the Portuguese-flagged British ships.

Vancouver insisted the entire Spanish establishment be turned over, but Quadra held that there were no buildings seized in 1789 and the only possible land was a tiny and useless cove nearby.

It is also interesting to note that when the Spanish Ambassador in Paris heard this news, the headlines were that Darnley “ had murdered his wife, admitted the exiled heretics, and seized the kingdom .” However on the 20 March, Darnley posted a declaration denying all knowledge of or complicity in the Rizzio conspiracy.

They attempted to capture several Spanish ships on the outward-bound voyage to improve their profits, but they were captured themselves and their cargo seized.

The ceremonial feathered headdress or quetzalāpanecayōtl that was worn by Montezuma II-the last reigning emperor-was seized by the Spanish Conquistadors in c. 1520 and sent back to Charles V, the King of Spain as a gift.

In 1810, residents of Baton Rouge formed a new government, seized the local Spanish fort and requested protection by the United States.

At St. Marks Jackson seized the Spanish fort.

The film company spent $ 250, 000 building a replica gunboat named the San Pablo, based on the USS Villalobos -- a former Spanish Navy gunboat that was seized by the U. S. Navy in the Philippine Islands during the Spanish-American War ( 1898 – 99 ) -- but with a greatly reduced draft to allow sailing on the shallow Tam Sui and Keelung rivers.

The Spanish army won the Battle of Truillas and several other actions, and seized the port of Collioure in December.

* 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.

In 1872 the capital was moved to Kingston, as the port city had far outstripped the inland Spanish Town in size and sophistication.

* 1801 – First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.

In the first quarter of the 20th century, Melilla became a thriving port benefitting from the recently established Protectorate of Spanish Morocco in the contiguous Rif.

The first recorded European discovery of San Francisco Bay was on November 4, 1769 when Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà, unable to find the port of Monterey, California, continued north close to what is now Pacifica and reached the summit of the high Sweeney Ridge, where he sighted San Francisco Bay.

A rivalry between the port of Montevideo and the port of Buenos Aires, dating back to the times of the Spanish Empire, has been described as a " port war ".

Although it is unknown just how much silver flowed from the Spanish base of Manila in the Philippines to the Ming Dynasty of China, it is known that the main port for the Mexican silver trade — Acapulco — shipped out 150, 000 to 345, 000 kg ( 4 to 9 million taels ) of silver annually from this year to 1602.

* September 24 – October 5 – Battle of Manila: Troops of the British East India Company take Manila from the Spanish, leading to the British occupation of Manila and its being made an open port.

* May 28 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30, 000 men, begins to set sail from the Tagus estuary heading for the English Channel ( it will take until May 30 for all of the ships to leave port ).

However, after 1591 the Portuguese used an international syndicate of the German Fuggers and Welsers, and Spanish and Italian firms, that used Hamburg as its northern staple port to distribute their goods, thereby cutting Dutch merchants out of the trade.

In 1773, Woodhouse landed at the port of Marsala and discovered the local wine produced in the region, which was aged in wooden casks and tasted similar to Spanish and Portuguese fortified wines then popular in England.

The governor of the area, Brigadier Don Gabriel José de Zuloaga had prepared the port defenses very diligently, and Spanish troops were well commanded by Captain Don Francisco Saucedo.

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

Percival would use to make a detailed study of the Spanish defenses, but this was not possible because predictably, Hidalgo Fraternity banned entry into the port.

After taking this Vernon news, immediately sent four ships to its fleet to intercept Spanish ships, finally getting these English circumvent controls and enter the port of Cartagena on April 21, 1740, landing there the new governor and several hundred of valuable veteran soldiers.

In September, fourteen French gunships, 3, 000 men and 300 Filipino troops provided by the Spanish, attacked the port of Tourane ( present day Da Nang ), causing significant damage and occupying the city.

Many of his paintings depict Port Vendres, a small port near the Spanish border, and the nearby landscapes.

A plan is devised wherein the Spaniard would return to the mainland with Friday's father and bring back the others, build a ship, and sail to a Spanish port.

At about 10: 30 a. m., the Spanish ships in the weather column were seen to wear ship and turn to port.

The Spanish lee division now put about to the port tack with the intention of breaking the British line at the point where the ships were tacking in succession.

Captain opened fire on the Spanish vessels with her larboard ( port ) side broadside and then put the helm over and hooked her larboard cat-head with the starboard quarter of San Nicolás.

Rome makes an alliance with the independent Spanish port city of Saguntum south of the Ebro River.

Claver volunteered for the Spanish colonies and was sent to the New Kingdom of Granada, where he arrived in the port city of Cartagena in 1610.