Search results
1 dzień temu · The Battle of the Basque Roads, also known as the Battle of Aix Roads (French: Bataille de l'île d'Aix, also Affaire des brûlots, rarely Bataille de la rade des Basques), was a major naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars, fought in the narrow Basque Roads at the mouth of the Charente River on the Biscay coast of France.The battle, which lasted from 11–24 April 1809, was unusual in that it ...
1 dzień temu · The Spanish Empire, [b] sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy [c] or the Catholic Monarchy, [d] [4] [5] [6] was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. [7] [8] In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It achieved a global scale, [9] controlling vast portions of the Americas ...
