La Reconquista is the ambition to return the Iberian Peninsula to those who consider themselves its rightful owners. The Kingdom of Asturias quickly took first place in these battles. Burgos was founded in 884, Salamanca taken over in 941. The big deal was the rise of Castile. A condottiere symboliz
The Congress of Vienna took place in 1814 after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. It was organized by the victorious powers to redefine the course of Europe. With the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814 and the consequent end of the Napoleonic Era , the powers that were involved in the wars wage
Madrid was captured by Napoleons French on March 23, 1808. The French had initially appeared as friends and protectors, but soon revealed their true colors. Napoleon had, in effect, arrested the Spanish kings, father and son. Napoleon ordered his marshal and sister-in-law Joachim Myra to capture the
In the early hours of April 9, 1945, the German Nazis executed the last German resistance fighters in the concentration camps. Six men were hanged at the Flossenburg camp. End. For me the beginning of life said the Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, an emblematic figure of the German resista