Unlike Bernal Díaz, who was remembering his memories many years after the fact, Cortés wrote his Cartas de relación ( Letters from Mexico ) in the moment in order to justify his actions to the Spanish Crown.

Unlike the Eleutherians, who were primarily farmers, the first settlers on New Providence made their living from the sea, salvaging ( mainly Spanish ) wrecks, making salt, and taking fish, turtles, conchs and ambergris.

Unlike the Spanish colonies, the Brazilian independence came as a indirect consequence of the Napolionioc Invasions to Portugal-French invasion under General Junot led to the capture of Lisbon on 8 December 1807.

Unlike the other Spanish missions in Arizona, San Xavier is still actively served by Franciscans, and still serves the Native community by which it was built.

Unlike most other autonomous communities of Spain ( but like the Basque Country ), Navarre has almost full responsibility for collecting and administering taxes which must follow the overall guidelines established by the Spanish government but may have some minor differences.

Unlike the Spanish, the Portuguese did not divide their colonial territory in America.

Unlike the Aztecs, upon first contact the Hopi put the Spanish through a series of tests in order to determine their divinity, and having failed, the Spanish were sent away from the Hopi mesas.

Unlike normal Spanish road and rail traffic, Madrid Metro trains use left-hand running on all lines due to historical reasons.

Unlike in other parts of Europe where Marxism came to play a dominant part, Spain's revolutionaries were mostly followers of the International's anarchist faction ( they were to remain very strong up until the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, and the subsequent dictatorship ).

Unlike other high-profile Mexican figures from the century preceding the Spanish Conquest, Nezahualcoyotl was not an Aztec ; his people were the Acolhua, another Nahuan people settled in the eastern part of the Valley of Mexico, settling on the eastern side of Lake Texcoco.

Unlike many other alphabets that use diacritic marks ( such as ü in Asturian, Leonese, Spanish, and Galician ), Ñ is considered by these languages a letter in its own right, with its own name ( eñe, pronounced " enye ") and its own place in the alphabet ( after N ).

Unlike the other leftist parties of the Popular Front, the POUM failed to consolidate again during the Spanish transition to democracy and dissolved in 1980 after getting a bad result in the first democratic elections after the death of Franco.

Unlike classical Spanish colonial architecture the churches of Chiloé are made entirely in native timber with extensive use of wood shingles.

Unlike Spanish chorizos, longanizas can also be made of chicken, beef, or even tuna.

Unlike other cities in Colombia such as Cartagena or Bogotá D. C., Barranquilla was not founded during the Spanish colonial times and it is not founded on the site of a pre-Columbian site.

Unlike the current official flag, this version consciously incorporates colours representing Greece ( blue ) and Turkey ( red ) alongside a large copper-yellow band for Cyprus ; the heraldic blazon is per fess Azure and Gules, a Spanish fess Or fimbriated Argent.

Unlike many of his relatives, Gaspar preferred to use the Spanish spelling of Borgia: Borja.

Unlike the rest of the Spanish broad gauge network, the AVE uses standard gauge, permitting direct connections outside Spain.

Unlike other Spanish newspapers, its editor, Pedro J. Ramírez, is a prominent public figure who has become linked with the paper in the eyes of the public.

Unlike M1911, the barrel was not cammed by a link, but by a ledge of sorts, which contacts a portion of the barrel and forces it down as it is moved rearward with the slide by the recoil force, similarly as in Browning's FN Hi-Power pistol and Spanish Ruby 0. 45 ACP.

Unlike the Spanish Missions, the villa was secular.

Unlike in French, the Spanish spellings of surnames containing the prepositional particle de are ambiguous without a preceding patronymic, an orthographic style common to noble surnames, thus, the lower-case spellings de la Rúa (“ of the street ") and de la Torre (“ of the tower ”) and the upper-case spellings De la Rúa and De la Torre are equally correct.

Unlike in French, Spanish orthography does not require a contraction when a vowel begins the surname, but de el (“ of the ”) becomes del, e. g. Carlos Arturo del Monte ( Charles Arthur of the Mountain ).

Unlike Europe, where the royal court, aristocratic families and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other identifiable groups.

Unlike the Scotch-Irish, the Germans were not politically-minded, and they had no qualms with the English governing them.

Unlike many other immigrants to the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Germans from Russia wanted to continue farming and settled in agricultural areas rather than industrial cities.

Unlike the Germans and Japanese, Italians were not subjected to prosecutions by Allied tribunals.

Unlike the Italian officers from the Regia Aeronautica, the Germans put a great deal of effort into developing close support doctrine.

Unlike the older generation, the youth groups took these reports seriously and had no illusions about the true intentions of the Germans.

Unlike the dive-bombers favored by the Germans, Italian bombers operated in formations at high altitudes during the early stages of the war, about twelve-thousand feet.

Unlike the IOC, which granted only provisional recognition to the East Germans in 1955, demanding they participate in an All-German Olympic team ( Unified Team of Germany ), the FIFA fully recognized the East German Football Association in 1952.

Unlike his brother, he gave in to lease the Tanganyika coast of mainland East Africa to the Germans, which immediately led to the Abushiri Revolt.

Unlike Estonia and Latvia where the Germans conscripted the local population into military formations within Waffen-SS, Lithuania never had its own Waffen-SS division.

Unlike previous monuments that commemorated the achievements of the monarchy, this one was created to commemorate the end of the battle in 1813, the establishment of a German community, and the maturation of the Germans as an organised ethnic group.

Unlike officeholders, the citizen initiator was not vetted before taking up office or automatically reviewed after stepping down — it had after all no set tenure and might be an action lasting only a moment.

Unlike the Vedic religion, ancient Buddhism had strong misgivings about violent ways of punishing criminals and about war.

Unlike earlier texts like Recipes for Fifty-Two Ailments, which was excavated in the 1970s from a tomb that had been sealed in 168 BCE, the Inner Canon rejected the influence of spirits and the use of magic.

Unlike other Scandanivian conservative ( and liberal ) parties, it has always had a large working-class following.

Unlike Coronation Street which had a very nostalgic view of working-class life, Brookside brought together working and middle-class families in a more contemporary environment.

Unlike her predecessor Mary Cassatt, who had arrived near the beginning of the Impressionist movement 15 years earlier and who had absorbed it, Beaux's artistic temperament, precise and true to observation, would not align with Impressionism and she remained a realist painter for the rest of her career, even as Cézanne, Matisse, Gauguin, and Picasso were beginning to take art into new directions.

Unlike Proto-Norse, which was written with the Elder Futhark alphabet, Old Norse was written with the Younger Futhark alphabet, which only had 16 letters.

Unlike the VOC, the WIC had no right to deploy military troops.

Unlike the violone, however, the fingerboard of the double bass is unfretted, and the double bass has fewer strings ( the violone, like most viols, generally had six strings, although some specimens had five or four ).

Unlike his father, Feodor had no enthusiasm in maintaining exclusive trading rights with England.

Unlike the previous generation of British film makers who had broken into directing and production after careers in the theatre or on television, the Art Cinema Directors were mostly the products of Art Schools.

Unlike the losses that had been suffered by Minucius, a major loss by Varro had the potential to kill so many soldiers that Rome might have had no further resources with which to continue the war.

Unlike the Baroque style that it replaced, which was generated almost solely in the context of palaces and churches, Georgian had wide currency in the upper and middle classes.

Unlike previous games, which had relied purely on General MIDI for music, Hexen is also able to play tracks from CDs.

Unlike the expansion pack for Heretic, it had to be purchased in retail stores or by mail order.

Unlike many previous first ladies, when Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, came to the White House, she had already carved out her own reputation, having graduated from Stanford as the only woman in her class with a degree in geology.

Unlike most battles of the Second Punic War, at Zama, the Romans were superior in cavalry and the Carthaginians had the edge in infantry.

Unlike many children, Simon was exposed to the idea that human behavior could be studied scientifically at a relatively young age due to the influence of his mother ’ s younger brother, Harold Merkel, who had studied economics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison under John R. Commons.

Unlike earlier anti-colonial movements, Islamic Jihad directed its attacks against what it believed were " apostate " leaders of Muslim states, leaders who held secular leanings or who had introduced or promoted Western / foreign ideas and practices into Islamic societies.

Unlike Hitler, who saw the Non-Aggression Pact as merely a pragmatic device forced on him by circumstances, namely the refusal of Britain or Poland to play the roles Hitler had allocated to them, Ribbentrop regarded the Non-Aggression Pact as integral to his anti-British policy.

Unlike the other factions, Ribbentrop's foreign policy programme was the only one that Hitler allowed to be executed during the years 1939 – 41, though it was more due to the temporary bankruptcy of Hitler's own foreign policy programme that he had laid down in Mein Kampf and Zweites Buch following the failure to achieve an alliance with Britain, than to a genuine change of mind.