Spain's Global Rise and Decline through the Ages
A sweeping account charts Spain's rise under Ferdinand and Isabella, the Spanish conquests in Africa and the Americas, the Habsburg era under Charles V and Philip II, and the empire's decline amid wars, taxation, and colonial exploitation, ending with Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and ongoing revolts.
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Worms
Francis I
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Artois
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Portugal
Europe
Clement VII
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Africa
Barbarossa
Algiers
Algeria
Turin
Fez
Morocco
Tunis
Elector of Saxony
Maurice
Saxony
Philip 11
America
South America
Rowan
Rhone
Brasil
Buenos Ayres
Venezuela
Chile
Thiraguay
Spanish South America
Peru
Colombia
Aftrwarts
Olivia
Ameroa
Cuba
Porto Rico
Philip Pines
Carolines
Pacific
Guinea
Fernando Po
San Domingo
Pacifc
Diplomatic Precedents From the New York Sun
The article reviews early U S reactions to foreign ministers who insulted the United States, detailing Genet's recall and Fauchet Yrujo Jackson Poussin and De Lome cases, and contrasts De Lome's covert insult with others who faced direct rebukes or recalls. It cites Madison, Clayton, and Taylor era actions and notes the differing responses by Washington and Paris.
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Spain
Ferdinand of Aragon
Isabella of Castile
Ferdinand
France
Peninsula
Naples
Aragon
Teabella
Canary Islands
Columbus
Armorica
Alexander IV
New World
Azores
South America
Ponce de Leon
Balboa
Cortez
Florida
Central America
Mexico
Faust
United States
Mississippi
West Indies
Brazil
North America
Carlos Marthrees
di Yrugo
Sally McKean
Pennsylvania
de Yrugo
Thomas Pindkney
Mississippi River
Piorida
Appalachicola
Flint River
St. Mary River
New Orleans
Louisiana
Indian Territory
Arkansas
Missouri
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
South Dakota
North Dakota
Bonaparte
Europe
Washington
Genet
England
Hamilton
Knox
Jefferson
Randolph
Fauchet
French Republic
Yrujo
Madison
Madrid
Congress
Jackson
New York
Foreign Office
London
de Lome
Monsieur Guillaume Tell Lavallee Poussin
Zachary Taylor
Poussin
Department of State
Clayton
Carpender
Iris
Navy Department
Reverdy Johnson
State Department
Paris
Poussinagin
Richard Rush
M. de Tocqueville
Mr. Rush
Vieux Zach
General Taylor
Bush
Taylor
Monsieur Guillaume Tell
Vallee Poussin
Catacazy
Sackville-Weat
Grovery
Chich
Yrujos Case
Pouseln
Senor
Enrique Dupuy de Lome
Nin
America
English Judge Bends Law For "Installment System" Justice
An English case reports a usurer suing a poor woman over a loan with monthly usurious interest. The judge recognizes hardship and orders payment at sixpence per month, effectively delaying full repayment for seventy-five years and creating a de facto installment system.
The Wounded on Lookout Mountain and Wartime Perseverance
A collector's reminiscence recounts General Fuller aiding a dying soldier after a sharpshooter warned him back. It describes soldiers enduring spent bullets and crippling wounds, malingering, and a Nashville hospital captain's account of superstition and panic among wounded men.
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Fuller
Toledo
Shiloh
Noapital
Lookout Mountain
Walter C. Whitaker
Whitaker
Nashville
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