During the 1560s, Philip II ordered the construction of 50 new galleys for operations in the Mediterranean. The largest, the Real , was built in the Barcelona shipyards in 1568. Badly damaged in the Battle of Lepanto, she sank on her way back to Messina. In addition to the normal crew (20 to 30 men
The American Revolution is a period of political changes after 1763 in the thirteen British colonies of North America that gave rise to the American War of Independence against Great Britain (1775-1783). Founding episode of the American nation and the birth of the United States, the revolution manif
The old France is subject to an economic system with agricultural preponderance. The vast majority of the 25 million inhabitants of the kingdom of Louis XVI live off the land. However, this peasant France has a subsistence economy with low productivity, linked to the vagaries of time and family demo
This fierce fight continued for two weeks, with both sides strengthening at the same rate so that neither could gain the upper hand. In an attempt to demoralize the million people of Madrid and also to satisfy the curiosity of German officers eager to see the reaction of the civilian population duri