Breve Resumen de la Historia del Paraguay...

From the beginning of the Second World War the sea became a vitally important scene of conflict. Great Britain relied on receiving supplies by sea and, therefore, a total blockade of the United Kingdom was one the main objectives of Hitler’s Germany. The British government was forced to maintain a strategy of antisubmarine warfare throughout the conflict, while the Royal Navy sought to interrupt the Third Reich’s maritime traffic. In these circumstances the submarine became an important weapon of war. Headed by Karl Dönitz, who would later succeed Hitler as Head of State, the German...

El submarino, como arma de guerra útil, apareció a principios del siglo XIX. Pese a que eran poco fiables, ya eran útiles para auténticas batallas navales. Pronto se vería que iban a ser un arma que tendría un prometedor futuro si se desarrollaba plenamente. Al comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el número de buques de la armada alemana era demasiado pequeño para disputar el control del mar a la Royal Navy británica; su única posibilidad estratégica era atacar su comercio utilizando la flota submarina; una clásica guerra de corso, como la realizada por Inglaterra durante siglos ...

A partir de 1692, la endermedad de la roya diezma los cutivos de trigo sobre la socta del Perú. La demanda peruana en cereales, cubierta en pocos años por Chile, impulsa el tráfico marítimo y el comercio del trigo entre Valparaíso y El Callao. Este es el telón de fondo de la apasionante historia de una compañia comercial establecida en Lima y en Santiago de Chile de 1710 a 1730 cuyas huellas contables e intercambios epistolares - hecho raro en la América española de inicios del siglo XVII - han sido conservados por los archivos. Las cartas entre los socios, entre el maestre del...

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