Canarias, territorio de exploraciones científicas. Proyecto Humboldt: expediciones científicas a Canarias en los siglos XVIII y XIX

In this new telling of Mexico’s Second Empire and Louis Napoléon’s installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life. From 1861 to 1866, the French incorporated the armies of Austria, Belgium—including forces from Crimea to Egypt—to fight and subdue the regime of Mexico’s Benito Juárez during the time of the U.S. Civil War. France viewed this as a chance to seize Mexican territory in a moment they were convinced the...

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Papers from the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Third Annual Meeting, Ravenna, September 24-28 1997

El libro pretende contar la aventura de la reconquista a partir del año de 711, cuando las hordas musulmanas cubrieron en pocos meses la Península Ibérica. Comenzaba así una reconquista que se prolongaría casi ocho siglos en los que se libraron batallas de las que surgieron los protagonistas por antonomasia del Medievo hispano - don Pelayo, Abderrahman I, el Cid, Abderrahman III, Almanzor, Jaime I el Conquistador, Boabdil o los Reyes Católicos, entre otros.