Author: Geoffrey ParkerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521543927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Revised second edition of the classic study, looking at Habsburg Spain's handling of the Dutch Revolt.
The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659
Author: Geoffrey ParkerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521543927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Revised second edition of the classic study, looking at Habsburg Spain's handling of the Dutch Revolt.
THE SPANISH ROAD
Author: Robert HurstPublisher: Yawn Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1954617046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Mission Road: “And lo! A light from Heaven shown down, And I beheld through the briars The Mission Road of the Franciscan friars.” Early on the morning, April 6, 2013 while visiting the old Suwannee River crossing at Charles Spring, I saw this beam from the heavens shining as if to mark the trail for me. This digital image, entitled “Photograph of the Bellamy Road, Charles Spring, which is thought to be a part of the Old Spanish Trail,” was placed in the Viva Florida 500 statewide time capsule and was sealed in the R. A. Gray Building, Tallahassee on December 31, 2013. It will be opened on Mar. 3, 2095. The state of Florida is entering some significant anniversaries in its history. The year 2013 ushered in Viva Florida 500, a state effort to celebrate and promote the Spanish discovery of Florida and 500 years of Spanish influence upon it. The year 2015 marked the 450th birthday of St. Augustine, the oldest continuously occupied city in the United States. Consequently there has been a renewed interest in the most famous road in the state’s history. Yes, Florida can boast as having the oldest city, but perhaps it also has the oldest road, for almost from the inception of St. Ausustine, inroads into the hinterland ensued. It is surprising that Florida’s royal road, El Camino Real, has never been accurately defined until now. Many have heard of the Old Spanish Trail, but have misleading ideas of its use and course. Often times, it is confused with the trail of the same name out West. Some think it extended from St. Augustine to Mexico, and, perhaps, the greatest error, is to associate it with U. S. Highway 90. Robert Hurst takes the reader on a 465 mile journey through the eyes of early Spaniards and others across the marshes, swamps, rivers, natural bridges, and highlands of Florida from St. Augustine to Pensacola. He describes the methods of ferrying men, cargo and horses across the many rivers encountered. The reader will travel in the footsteps of Spaniards, English and American soldiers. He will experience the hardships of river crossings and encounter the various tribes of Native Americans, their villages and the Catholic missions along the way. He will experience the tired traveler’s joy upon reaching the many remarkable springs along the trail. In short, this book is about the struggle of man and beast to penetrate the wild, untamed Florida wilderness of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The reader will discover the course and experience what travel was like along the real Old Spanish Trail. Accompanying the text are appendices, photographs and maps. In the appendices, the reader will discover driving roads and hiking trails that replicate the experience of travel on this most famous and historic trail. The photographs illustrate the pristine parts of the existing trail, and the early and contemporary maps enable the reader to actually visit parts of the old trail. This is a book that will not only interest the reader with historical and archaeological interests, but also the outdoor adventurer and the Florida heritage\ecotourist. The publication of this work is long overdue. Florida’s oldest, most famous, and longest road has not received the attention it deserves. It is the author’s hope that the attention this book will receive will help save what is left of one of Florida’s most important heritage sites.
Spain's Road to Empire
Author: Henry KamenPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141927321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
How did a barren, thinly populated country, somewhat isolated from the rest of Europe become the world's first superpower? Henry Kamen's tremendous new book takes full advantage of its great theme to recreate the dazzling world of militant Castile from the fall of Moorish Granada and Columbus' first voyage to the imperial collapse over three centuries later. There is no better account in English of this immense, brutal adventure - a ceaseless quest for land, gold and slaves that made Spain, both for its conquered peoples and much of the rest of Europe, into a rapacious nightmare.
The Armada of Flanders
Author: R. A. StradlingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521525121
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The armada's contribution to the tenacious survival of Spanish hegemony.
The Road to Rocroi
Author: Fernando González de LeónPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047424131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Combining approaches and insights from cultural, social and military history this study traces the evolution and decline of the Spanish officer corps and general staff during the Eighty Years War in connection with contemporary trends such as modernization and aristocratization.
Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America
Author: Zebulon Montgomery PikePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Exploratory travels through the Western territories of North America
Author: Zebulon M. PikeHouse documents
Author: The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike: Arkansaw journey
Author: Zebulon Montgomery PikePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
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