2. the Spanish agreed to the thirty first parallel as the Northern boundary of Florida
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That night in 1848 the young Jules he was wearing his only suit, the one that carefully took turns with his friend Eduoard Bonamy to frequent some other literary and intellectual gathering in Paris. He tried not to let his clothing reveal his provincial Nantes origin to the gathering, and even les
Entry taken from the books From Covadonga to Tamarón and From war to unification. The case of Fernando I de León is a paradigmatic example of the interrelationship between the peninsular medieval kingdoms and domains. Born as an infant of the kingdom of Pamplona, he served as count of Castile a
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