The Republicans were supported by Mexico and the Soviet Union while the Nationalist were supported by Italy, Germany, and Portugal. The Nationalists ended up conquering Spain and won the war with Francisco Franco becoming the dictator of Spain until 1975....
Who ruled France after Louis XVI? Who ruled before the Plantagenets? Who owned the land in a feudal society? Who ruled the Russian Empire in 1914? Who ended the Danelaw? Who was the leader of the fascist revolution in Spain? Who invented absolute monarchy? Who issued the Edict of Emancipa...
Knowledge of the methods these men used to manoeuvre the French Government into financial difficulty is of importance, because it set the pattern they followed in America, Russia, Spain and other countries afterwards. Sir Walter Scott in Vol. two ofThe Life of Napoleon, gives a clear story of...
In 1855, he accompanied Robert MacAndrew on a dredging excursion from the Shetland Islands to Norway and beyond the Arctic Circle; he subsequently made other cruises, to Greenland and to the coast of Spain. These expeditions laid the foundations of an extensive knowledge of the distribution of ...
5. I never before understood what an enormous impact the Franco-Prussian War had on the Morisot family and particularly Berthe’s health. What sources did you rely on to dig into that period in the Passy neighborhood? Do you think her health issues from the war contributed to her early dea...
Cornered by a colony of reptilian predators known as the sãoni, Sohmeng is rescued by Hei, an eccentric exile with no shortage of secrets. As likely to bite Sohmeng as they are to cook her breakfast, this stranger and their family of lizards are like nothing she’s ever seen before....
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He supported Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War and played a key role in keeping Portugal and Spain neutral during World War II while still providing aid and assistance to the Allies. Despite not being a democracy, Portugal under his rule took part in the founding of important ...