So instead of being tests of the South's loyalty, the Spanish War, the two World Wars, and the Korean War all served to overcome old grievances and cement reunion.

Nelson was a highly experienced officer who had been blinded in one eye during fighting in Corsica in 1794 and subsequently commended for his capture of two Spanish ships of the line at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797.

Another book using that same title, the " Gospel of Barnabas ", survives in two post-medieval manuscripts in Italian and Spanish.

So, Bogotá became one of the principal administrative centers of the Spanish possessions in the New World, along with Lima and Mexico City, though it remained somewhat backward compared to those two cities in several economic and logistical ways.

The Siege of the Alcázar in the Spanish Civil War, in which the Nationalists held out against a much larger Republican force for two months until relieved, shows that in some cases a citadel can be effective even in modern warfare ; a similar case is the Battle of Huế, where an NVA division held the citadel of Huế for 26 days against roughly their own numbers of much better-equipped US and South Vietnamese troops.

By means of her mother, Catherine had a stronger legitimate claim to the English throne than King Henry VII himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and the Spanish Infanta Constance of Castile.

Published in two volumes a decade apart, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.

By 1534 the Spanish crown had determined to split the region in two parallel lines, forming the governorship of " Nueva Castilla " ( from the 1 ° to the 14 ° latitude, close to Pisco ), and that of " Nueva Toledo " ( from the 14 ° to the 25 ° latitude, in Taltal, Chile ), assigning the first to Francisco Pizarro and the second to Diego de Almagro.

Atahualpa's final victory over Huáscar in the days just before the Spanish conquerors arrived resulted in large part from the loyalty of two of Huayna Capac's best generals, who were based in Quito along with Atahualpa.

Since then, the country has had two presidents: Francisco Macías Nguema, the former mayor of Mongomo under the Spanish colonial government, and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo ( Macías's nephew ), who has ruled since 1979 when he staged a military coup d ' état and executed Macías.

It consisted of three Italian MEPs ( Lega Nord two, Sardinian Action Party one ), two Spanish MEPs ( one each for the PNV and the Andalusian Party, PA ), one Belgian MEP ( for VU ), one French MEP ( Union of the Corsican People, UPC ), one British MEP ( SNP ) and one Irish MEP ( Neil Blaney, independent ).

In Spanish warfare, it was common for leaders of armies to pit two champions against each other to determine the outcome of the conflict.

An early proponent of the electric Spanish guitar was jazz guitarist George Barnes who used the instrument in two songs recorded in Chicago on March 1, 1938, " Sweetheart Land " and " It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame ".

The main exceptions to this system occur in some Latin American leagues, which divide football championships into two sections named Apertura and Clausura ( Spanish for Opening and Closing ), awarding a champion for each.

The Falkland Islands comprise two main islands, West Falkland and East Falkland ( in Spanish Isla Gran Malvina and Isla Soledad respectively ), and about 776 small islands.

In 1516, after a failed Navarrese-French attempt to expel the Spanish invaders from the kingdom, an attempt in which Francis ' brothers had taken part, the Spanish Castilian kingdom's Governor, Cardinal Cisneros, ordered family lands to be confiscated, the demolition of the outer wall, the gates and two towers of the family castle, the moat was filled, and the height of the keep was reduced in half.

In another study, two large samples of Spanish children were assessed with a 30-year gap.

There, a new settlement was formed, being granted a council two years later ( 1706 ), with the name of San Roque, and being considered by the Spanish Crown as the heir to the lost town of Gibraltar ( historical objects and records predating 1704 were subsequently taken to San Roque where they remain to this day.

* 1936 – 1939 – After the United Kingdom recognised the Franco's regime in 1938, Gibraltar had two Spanish Consulates, a Republican one and a Nationalistic one.

The history of Gibraltar from the Second World War is characterized by two main elements: the increasing autonomy and self-government achieved by Gibraltarians and the re-emergence of the Spanish claim, especially during the years of the Francoist dictatorship.

Globe magazine also appears monthly, having first started as a bi-lingual publication which produced two versions of each of its articles-one in English and the other in Spanish.

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 ).

Nonetheless Canadian English also features many British English items and is often described as a unique blend of the two larger varieties alongside several distinctive Canadianisms.

Labor arbitration comes in two varieties: interest arbitration, which provides a method for resolving disputes about the terms to be included in a new contract when the parties are unable to agree, and grievance arbitration, which provides a method for resolving disputes over the interpretation and application of a collective bargaining agreement.

There were also two varieties of refiners ' carats once used in the United Kingdom — the pound carat and the ounce carat.

Hume's argument is that we cannot rationally justify the claim that nature will continue to be uniform, as justification comes in only two varieties, and both of these are inadequate.

English and Serbo-Croatian each have two major variants ( British and American English, and Serbian and Croatian, respectively ), along with numerous other varieties.

For political reasons, analyzing these varieties as " languages " or " dialects " yields inconsistent results: British and American English, spoken by close political and military allies, are almost universally regarded as dialects of a single language, whereas the standard languages of Serbia and Croatia, which differ from each other to a similar extent as the dialects of English, are being treated by some linguists from the region as distinct languages, largely because the two countries oscillate from being brotherly to being bitter enemies.

Wind erosion is of two primary varieties: deflation, where the wind picks up and carries loose soil particles ; and abrasion, where surfaces are worn down as they are struck by airborne particles carried by wind.

Other European pioneers were Robert Boyle, who in 1675 stated that electric attraction and repulsion can act across a vacuum ; Stephen Gray, who in 1729 classified materials as conductors and insulators ; and C. F. du Fay, who proposed in 1733 that electricity comes in two varieties that cancel each other, and expressed this in terms of a two-fluid theory.

Note: In the following discussion, only one or two common pronunciations of American and British English varieties are used in this article for each word cited.

There are two main varieties of keys in use on Freenet, the Content Hash Key ( CHK ) and the Signed Subspace Key ( SSK ).

Similarly, release print stocks usually are available only in two varieties: a " normal " print or a deluxe print ( on more-costly print film like Kodak Vision Premiere ) with slightly greater saturation and contrast.

From the early modern period till the late twentieth century, the two dominant varieties of foundationalist theories were rationalism and empiricism ( or British empiricism ), both of which are internalist views.

One kind of false friend can occur when two speakers speak different varieties of the same language.

There are also more exotic varieties, such as guitars with two, three, or rarely four necks, all manner of alternate string arrangements, fretless fingerboards ( used almost exclusively on bass guitars, meant to emulate the sound of a stand-up bass ), 5. 1 surround guitar, and such.

The tradition of diglossia, the simultaneous existence of vernacular and archaizing written forms of Greek, was renewed in the modern era in the form of a polarization between two competing varieties: Dimotiki, the vernacular form of Modern Greek proper, and Katharevousa, meaning ' purified ', an imitation of classical Greek, which was developed in the early 19th century and used for literary, juridic, administrative and scientific purposes in the newly formed modern Greek state.

Heinz Ketchup is available in India in two varieties, with one being the traditional recipe, and another a recipe which does not contain garlic or onion.

Semantic externalism comes in two varieties, depending on whether meaning is construed cognitively or linguistically.

There are two major varieties of knitting: weft knitting and warp knitting.

It is commonly ground into a flour and used to make rice cakes called tteok in over two hundred varieties.

48 forms ( species and infraspecific taxa ) of fish have been encountered in the lake, including roach, carp bream, zander, European perch, ruffe, endemic variety of smelt, two varieties of Coregonus albula ( vendace ), eight varieties of Coregonus lavaretus, a number of other Salmonidae as well as, albeit rarely, endangered European sea sturgeon.

Realism comes in two main varieties:

Liturgical books usually came in two varieties.

The latter varieties, including the ' Przemko ' and ' Norman ' cultivars of the opium poppy, are used to produce two other alkaloids, thebaine and oripavine, which are used in the manufacture of semi-synthetic and synthetic opioids like oxycodone and etorphine and some other types of drugs.

There are two main varieties of short-period comet: Jupiter-family comets ( those with semi-major axes of less than 5 AU ) and Halley-family comets.