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  • The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939, was a conflict in which the Francoists, or Nationalists, defeated the ...
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  • The Ten Years' War, (Guerra de los Diez Años) (also known as ... The Ten Years' War (1868-1878) was the first of three wars that ...
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  • He covered five different wars: The Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese ... through many wars, including the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the ...
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  • the years preceding and during the American Civil War. He is most known for ... famous and stunning pictures of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the ...
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  • Chim's coverage of the Spanish Civil War, Czechoslovakia, and ... Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Spanish Civil War, Chim:Reflections from ...
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  • Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821), was an armed conflict between ... and La Malinche, led a revolt against the Spanish colonial government in order ...
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  • 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. ... Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, de Falla left Spain ...
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  • In 1937, Paz visited Spain during that country's civil war, showing ... with the Republicans during the Spanish civil war, but after learning ...
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  • The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Spain ... Africa, and the West Indies. Much of the Spanish Empire had already gained ...
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  • rule in 1844. His aspiration for the Spanish-speaking portion of the ... which is known today as the Spanish Civil War, 1820–1823. American ...
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  • grandfather served in the Revolutionary War, while his father was an abolitionist ... Abraham Lincoln for president. After the Civil War broke out, he volunteered ...
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  • His son would improve Prussia's civil service and establish the ... against King Louis XIV of France in the War of the Spanish Succession ...
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  • A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society ... The Spanish Civil War, fought from 1936–1939, was the result of ...
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  • After the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century, the indigenous ... arrived as refugees after the Yamasee War such as the Yuchi, Yamasee ...
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  • Friends and assisted civilian victims of World War I. Because Quakers ... for children on both sides of the Spanish Civil War, and provided relief ...
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  • to remain in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, García Lorca was ... When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, García Lorca left Madrid ...
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  • simply "Others." Shuar refer to Spanish-speakers as apach, and to ... to mission boarding schools to learn Spanish. In 1935, the Ecuadorian ...
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  • pre-eminent English navigator, politician, civil engineer, and known slave ... with them notions of religious liberty, of civil society composed of voluntary ...
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  • the Canadian Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. In 1938, Bethune went ... When the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, a spokesman from the Committee ...
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  • The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939, was a conflict in which the Francoists, or Nationalists, defeated the ...
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  • Anti-clerical violence in Spain arose during the First Spanish Civil ... During the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, and in the context of atrocities ...
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  • population of any of the autonomous Spanish states. In terms of land ... It fell to the Insurgents in the Spanish civil war of 1936–1939. Demonstrations ...
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  • ===Spanish Civil War=== After returning to Chile, Neruda was given ... first time. His experiences of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath moved ...
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  • He supported the Spanish-American War, the purpose of which was to ... the world stage. In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, he was the ...
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  • and programs. Adler also served on the Civil Liberties Bureau, which later ... in 1908. In 1917, Adler served on the Civil Liberties Bureau, which later ...
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  • for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War and with the French ... During the Spanish Civil War Malraux served as a pilot for the Republican ...
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  • 31, 1936) was a multi-faceted Spanish writer, an essayist, novelist ... Franco caused the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Having begun his literary ...
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  • in skirmishes that exploded into the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585–1604. An attempt ... the Desmond Rebellions and the Nine Years' War. Despite the heights ...
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  • word has a history of ethnocentrism, the Spanish, Portuguese, and French ... communities on both sides of the American Civil War by Republican opponents. ...
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  • politician, Union general in the American Civil War, and diplomat serving ... distinction in several battles during the Civil War, especially at the Battle ...
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  • of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear ... Jorge Farragut Mesquida (1755–1817), a Spanish merchant captain from Minorca ...
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  • to a man's. However, when the American Civil War broke out, she sacrificed ... former British Loyalist in the Revolutionary War. Her father's stories ...
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  • village life centered around the seasons and war. Ancient stories speak to ... The Chickasaw first had contact with Europeans in 1540, when Spanish ...
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  • This city that was founded by Spanish explorers on the feast day of ... of the Assumption on August 15, 1537, by Spanish explorers Juan de Salazar ...
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  • Hay's diary and writings during the Civil War are basic historical ... published in the book Lincoln and the Civil War, show the president in ...
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  • "insular areas" following the Spanish-American War. The Anti-Imperialist ... In 1895, an anti-Spanish uprising began in Cuba, one of several Spanish ...
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  • Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May" ... the Cry of Dolores, which initiated the war of Mexican independence from Spain. ...
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  • spread as far as Mesoamerica where the Spanish conquistadors found the ... United States. Before the American Civil War, peanuts in the United ...
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  • ===Spanish Civil War=== fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War against Francisco Franco ...
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  • (March 30, 1746 – April 16, 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of ...
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  • Chief Blackbird established trade with the Spanish and French and used trade ... 1,100 people around the year 1795. The Spanish built a fort nearby and ...
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  • The Eighty Years' War, or Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), was the ... and Northern France, remained under Spanish rule. In 1648 large areas ...
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  • range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, are characterized by terse minimalism and understatement. ...
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  • neither were kings. Charles I waged his war against the Presbyterians ... case should not be decided by a civil tribunal, and worked to reduce ...
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  • century. Guatemala was plunged into a civil war in 1960 that lasted 36 ... region for nearly 2,000 years before the Spanish arrived in the early sixteenth ...
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  • a colony that was later confiscated by the Spanish. He also was able to make ... first European country to grant Jews full civil and political rights. As ...
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  • following victory in the Spanish Civil War. From 1947, he was ... The coup had failed, but the Spanish Civil War had begun. ...
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  • part of their huge empire until the Spanish conquest in 1538. When the Spanish conquistadores overran the Inca Empire, Pedro Anzures ...
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  • Gordon shortly before the beginning of the Civil War. She was the second of ... the British Isles and America. During the Spanish-American War, Juliette came ...
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  • months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Goldman rushed to ... ===Spanish Civil War=== At the age of 67 Goldman went to Spain to support ...
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  • auction houses operating. Following the Civil War and the Emancipation ... an admixture of eighteenth-century French, Spanish, and African cultures. Before ...
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  • D.C. It was established during the American Civil War on the grounds of the ... dating from the American Revolution. Pre-Civil War soldiers were re-interred ...
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  • implementation of the Monroe Doctrine. The War of 1812 had already been fought ... the New World, while markets in the former Spanish colonies that had recently ...
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  • ==Regency and Civil War== Alfonso VIII was born to Sancho III of Castile ... Alfonso was the founder of the first Spanish university, a studium ...
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  • Picasso remained neutral during the Spanish Civil War, World War I ... Germans in either world war. In the Spanish Civil War, service for Spaniards ...
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  • contested by the United Kingdom and the Spanish Empire and, later, Guatemala ... After the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century, most of the inhabitants ...
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  • as the country teetered on the brink of civil war. == Background == ... the revolution as well, which (through the Civil Constitution of the Clergy ...
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  • opponent of slavery, arguing that if a civil war ever broke out the president ... was a leading diplomat during the American Civil War, and grandson, Henry ...
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  • Francisco Bay, Alcatraz was used to house Civil War prisoners as early as ... The name Alcatraz is derived from the Spanish "Alcatraces." ...
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  • The Medal of Honor was first issued during the Civil War. By the time ... into disuse after the American Revolutionary War, the concept of a military ...
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  • is Catalan, as is a large portion of its Spanish immigrants and their descendants. ... Andorra to prevent influences of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's Spain ...
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  • The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as The ... In the United States, the war was a partisan issue, supported by most ...
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  • in the struggle against fascism. After the war, several of the stronger Trotskyist ... with "traitor." In the Spanish Civil War, being called a "Trot ...
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  • medicine bundle, he was not a hereditary civil chief of the Sauk, but was ... During the War of 1812 he fought on the side of the British. Later ...
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  • The Spanish Viceroy of Peru had La Paz founded in 1548, in an area ... of peace following the end of the civil wars in Peru and after an ...
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  • 12, 1926) – sometimes referred to by the Spanish translation of his name ... who stayed at Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, admittedly loathed ...
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  • It appears to be a direct English translation of vaquero, the Spanish ... quot; and "cowboy" is that the Spanish term lacks an implication ...
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  • up a military base from which they fought a civil war with the Kuomintang. Chinese Communist Party’s move to end its civil war with the Kuomintang and ...
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  • and named it La Isla Española, "The Spanish Island," which was ... After 25 years of Spanish occupation, the Taino population had shrunk ...
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  • Wilhelm II. The Museum has survived World War II and is now one of the most ... Prior to and during World War II the museum was put on a shoestring ...
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  • going into voluntary exile during the Spanish Civil War rather than align himself ... for the rest of his life. During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), he was ...
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  • of the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in 1846, although he came ... Address, in which he interpreted the Civil War as a struggle to determine ...
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  • #039;s loyalist forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The ... of the Anarchists during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). After ...
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  • It was also an important force in the Spanish Civil War, organizing worker ... Popular Front government in the Spanish Civil War. In November 1936, ...
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  • publicized platform for putting the Vietnam War on trial. On February 18, ... worked behind the lines in the Spanish Civil War. In 1940, he refused ...
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  • . Set in the period leading up to the Spanish Civil War, it is regarded by ... a significant statement about the Spanish Civil War. It was included in ...
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  • Francisco Pizarro (c. 1475 – June 26, 1541) was a Spanish conquistador ... treason. The Incas were also surprised by Spanish tactics, which employed ...
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  • old Graves, and with the outbreak of World War I, he enlisted almost immediately ... to leave Majorca in 1936 due to the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, he and Laura ...
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  • and largest city, is also named after. In Spanish it is usually called Belice ... explanation is that it derives from the Spanish pronunciation of "Wallace ...
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  • dogs, similar to the Canary Mastiff (in Spanish, el Presa Canario), may ... revolt of July 17 which began the Spanish Civil War. Franco quickly took ...
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  • pacifist movement which followed World War I; the organization also maintained ... veterans of the American Revolutionary War, including French or Spanish ...
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  • Regiments.org, Boxer Rebellion (Third China War) 1900. By August 1900, over ... In 1839, the First Opium War broke out, and China was defeated by ...
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  • in the foundations and lower stories of Spanish colonial structures. and engineering that have outlasted later Spanish colonial structures. In ...
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  • church party, in the same manner as the Spanish Habsburg standard. bastard feudalism upon the support of civil servants who demanded compensation ...
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  • " before this was dissolved during the war in Algeria. Traditionally ... Third Republic in 1870. Napoleon III's war with Prussia burdened France ...
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  • and its people held back by political turmoil and civil war. ... in German, Costa de Marfil in Spanish, Norsunluurannikko in Finnish ...
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  • British rule in the American Revolutionary War . Founded by a group of philanthropists ... Mississippi and Alabama, for the American civil rights movement. Atlanta ...
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  • The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter ... British, as the debt it incurred winning the war would lead directly to a series ...
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  • was shut down at the start of World War I. The family, considered ... and Italy's involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Mussolini's sympathy ...
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  • heritage, born of a mixture of traditional Spanish culture with the native ... silver as did many of its neighbors, the Spanish passed through it on their ...
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  • father, Henry P.J. Layard, of the Ceylon Civil Service, was the son of Charles ... for Ceylon to obtain an appointment in the civil service. He started in 1839 ...
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  • died October 12, 1600 in Madrid) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and philosopher ... When the dispute began to jeopardize civil as well as ecclesiastical ...
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  • to study art and architecture. With World War I raging in Europe and America ... to Spain with Hemingway during the Spanish Civil War, but his views on the ...
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  • After the French-Indian War most of Louisiana was ceded to Spain in ... American rule, rules implemented by the Spanish continued to be upheld. ...
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  • Edward Lee, as a U.S. Army Colonel before the war]] the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. He eventually commanded ...
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  • Americans, the Texas Revolution and its War of Independence from Mexico ... of the American South. However, with its Spanish and Mexican roots, it can ...
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  • just since the time of Independence or the Civil War.William J. Connell, ... at the Siege of Yorktown in the Revolutionary War. [http://leg1.state ...
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  • 1st New York Cavalry during the American Civil War. He made his way to Saint ... in the United States' entry into the Spanish-American War after both ...
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  • France-Habsburg rivalry, and the numerous civil conflicts of the Holy Roman ... centuries, the Peace of Westphalia and the War of the Spanish Succession ...
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  • |languages=Miskito, Spanish, Miskito Creole English |religions=Christianity ... large groups speak Miskito creole English, Spanish, and other languages. Their ...
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  • the threat of war. He was 14 when the Spanish Civil War broke out, and was ... but his education was interrupted by war service. He joined the British ...
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