They were primarily farmers who lived in towns, organized into small kingdoms, however, within three decades an estimated Indian population of one million plummeted to a few tens of thousands, as approximately half of the indigenous people in western Nicaragua died of diseases brought by the Spaniards.

About 86 % of the population is considered to be Mestizo, and 12 % fall under the category of white, or creole, having complete ancestry mostly from Spaniards, and few French or German.

They carried with them a plethora of seeds for planting, a drove of swine and brood mares, and almost a thousand native Indians but were composed of only a few Spaniards.

The Spaniards left Jolo after a few days, so they probably had had no intentions of occupation, but they were mostly securing their rear areas on their way to attack northern Borneo.

In 1731, General Ignacio Iriberri lead a force of 1000 to Jolo and captured it after a lengthy siege, but the Spaniards again left after a few days.

Córdoba landed at several towns ; some greeted the Spanish with friendship and offered to trade goods with them ( the Spaniards acquired a few pieces of gold ornaments this way ).

He continued on to Chichen Itza, which he declared his Royal capital of Spanish Yucatán, but after a few months the locals rose up against him, the Spaniards were constantly attacked, and the Spanish force fled to Honduras.

The collapse of Spanish power in the region was inevitable as Americans poured into the district, and very few Spaniards lived there.

However, in the mountains and jungles, the Spaniards were less able to use narrow Amerindian roads and bridges made for pedestrian traffic, which were sometimes no wider than a few feet.

The Spaniards, meanwhile, had literally fought to the knife, losing a third of their force in casualties but yielding very few prisoners.

But the Spaniards left after a few days.

The town of Cajamarca was mostly empty except for a few hundred acllas ; the Spaniards occupied long buildings on the main plaza.

On Trafalgar Square he saw with his own eyes the results of those atrocities, when the few Spaniards, who escaped Castillo's clutches, came to seek asylum in England.

Following the siege of Cuzco, the Spaniards began to use Sacsayhuaman as a source of stones for building Spanish Cuzco and within a few years much of the complex was demolished.

When the Spaniards learned that their haunted writer was in the Philippines, they arrested and deported Rizal a few days after the Liga was established.

The Spaniards were forced back ( losing 1, 500 casualties according to General Foy ), but the isolated French brigade felt its danger and on the 4th Cassagne fell back over the Guadalquivir to Bailén, leaving only a few companies to guard the ferry at Mengibar.

A few days after the Cry of Balintawak, on 31 August 1896, General Mariano Trias ordered the liquidation of all Spaniards in the municipality.

How it got its name is told vaguely by the natives in the tale about how the early Spaniards who reached the place found abundant growths of bamboo trees along creeks that circled the town site namely Bulod, Sipat, Bungkol, and Marabulig creeks where few families lived.

Before the coming of the Spaniards, Bontoc was then a total wilderness where few aborigines lived and wild animals roamed.

This same study shows that of the Spaniards who identify themselves as religious, 56 % goes to mass few times a year, 15 % go to mass many times a year, 9 % some time per month and 16 % every Sunday or multiple times per week.

A 1980 survey revealed that, although 82 percent of Spaniards were believers in Catholicism, very few considered themselves to be very good practitioners of the faith.

In 1574, a few years after the Spaniards established Manila as the colonial capital of the Philippines, the Chinese pirate Limahong ( traditional Chinese: 林風 ) attacked Manila and burned it to the ground, retreating later to other places around the Luzon coast where his forces continued the killings and looting.

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

but by a blond girl in a sweater and skirt who stood a few yards off and tenderly regarded him.

I don't mean a few aesthetes who play about with sensations, like a young prince in a miniature dabbling his hand in a pool.

A few months ago it was a fairly typical landlord who in the dead of night lugged me up a mountainside to drink from a spring famous in the neighborhood for its clarity and flavor.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

How much they esteemed him is shown by the fact that their underground committee selected him as one of the few who would be helped to escape.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

The Fourteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers lost one-third of its numbers within a few minutes, among them being several men whose time of service had expired but who had volunteered to advance with their regiment.

There are millions who accept this doctrine, but few indeed are those who accept it so truly that the fate of humanity lies as a weight on their souls night and day.

Apparently no serious disorders resulted from the celebration, and within a few days, Morgan joined the force of Lafayette who now had command of some 2,000 men at Barren Hill, not far above Philadelphia on the Schuylkill.

In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.

The few scholars who have adopted the `` shore occupied by '' interpretation, Howorth, Shore, and Wade-Evans, have all been Celtic survivalists.

But that scarcely means that he was the aloof, forbidding type of student who shared few if any activities with his fellows, the banter of the surviving prolusions providing enough evidence to deny this.

But Interior Secretary Udall warns that there is a race on between those who would develop our few surviving open shorelines and those who would save them for the enjoyment of all as public preserves.

Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.

Daughter of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few really beautiful girls in the New York Casbah, with dark eyes and dark, waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, glimmering body.

Many belly dancers are married, but Serene is one of the few who will admit it.

He whirled around, suddenly hot all over, finding the man who had been standing before him a few moments back, nailing him to the spot on which he now stood, open-mouthed.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

The local decorator who rushes in for a few hours of teaching may but more likely may not have these qualifications.

After a few tortuous moments of wondering who `` he '' is, the camera pans across the room to the plaster statue, and we realize that Neitzbohr is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of a mute piece of sculpture.

But few who have experienced marriage can dispute the fact that the focus of interpersonal relationships is different in marriage than in a pre-marital situation.