A Spanish expeditionary force under Matías de Gálvez , the Captain General of Spanish Guatemala , gained Getting control Control of the British-held island after bombarding Attack its main defences .

The Spanish evacuated Rescuing the captured soldiers , 135 civilians and 300 slaves , and destroyed Destroying their settlement , which they claimed Statement had been used Using as a base for piracy and privateering .

( It is viewed Perception_active in Europe as the American theater of the War Hostile_encounter of the Spanish Succession . )

The belligerents were France , French colonists , and various Indian tribes versus England , English colonists , and various Indian tribes for control Control of the American continent ; the War Hostile_encounter of the Spanish Succession was primarily fought Hostile_encounter in Europe .

It heard Perception_active from British and Gibraltar authorities that the IRA team had been tracked Self_motion to Málaga Airport , where they were lost Earnings_and_losses by the Spanish police , and that the three did not re-emerge until Savage was sighted Perception_active parking Placing his car in Gibraltar .

The Occupy movement took inspiration in part from the Arab Spring , from the 2009 Iranian Green Movement , and from the Spanish Indignados Movement , as well as from the overall global wave of anti-austerity protests of 2010 and following .

It was an attempt by a huge Portuguese army under the command of Joanne Mendes de Vasconcelos , governor of Alentejo , to capture Conquering the Spanish city of Badajoz , which was the headquarters of the Spanish Army of Extremadura .

It was an attempt by a huge Portuguese army under the command of Joanne Mendes de Vasconcelos , governor of Alentejo , to capture Conquering the Spanish city of Badajoz , which was the headquarters of the Spanish Army of Extremadura .

The city was poorly defended Defending and the Spanish troops under the command of Francisco de Tuttavilla , Duke of San Germán , looked principally to their own survival until a Spanish relief expedition could be mounted .

The city was poorly defended Defending and the Spanish troops under the command of Francisco de Tuttavilla , Duke of San Germán , looked principally to their own survival until a Spanish relief expedition could be mounted .

These plans received Receiving a boost when they captured Conquering a large Spanish defensive installation outside Badajoz , the Fort of San Miguel , but were unable to use Using this platform successfully against Badajoz itself .

A small relief army was improvised by the Portuguese which inflicted Causation a crushing defeat to the Spanish army at the decisive battle of the Lines of Elvas ( 14 January 1659 ) .

This way , the Portuguese independence was granted Giving while the Spanish reached Arriving military advantage in the secondary front of war , Minho and Galicia .

The Philippine–American War , also referred Name_conferral to as the FilipinoAmerican War , the Philippine War , the Philippine Insurrection or the Tagalog Insurgency ( Filipino : `` Digmaang Pilipino-Amerikano '' ; Spanish : `` Guerra Filipino-Estadounidense '' ) , was an armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic and the United States that lasted from February 4 , 1899 , to July 2 , 1902 .

The British garrison under George Augustus Eliott were blockaded Besieging from June 1779 , initially by the Spanish alone , led by Martín Álvarez de Sotomayor .

The blockade failed because two relief Assistance convoys entered Arriving unmolested—the first under Admiral George Rodney in 1780 and the second under Admiral George Darby in 1781—despite the presence of the Spanish fleets .

The same year , a major assault was planned Arranging by the Spanish , but the Gibraltar garrison sortied Hostile_encounter in November and destroyed Destroying much of the forward batteries .

With the siege Besieging going Motion nowhere and constant Spanish failures , the besiegers were reinforced Cause_change_of_strength by French forces under de Crillon , who took over Change_of_leadership command Control in early 1782 .

It was played Competition at the Olympiastadion in Berlin , Germany , on 6 June 2015 , between Italian side Juventus and Spanish side Barcelona .

British traders in Florida as well as the Spanish government provided Supply the Red Sticks with arms and supplies because of their shared Communication interest in preventing Preventing_or_letting the expansion Expansion of the United States into their areas .

The tour was additionally sponsored Supply by Spanish automobile manufacturer SEAT , with whom Shakira also collaborated Collaboration to support Supporting her Pies Descalzos Foundation .

The Chiapas conflict Hostile_encounter ( Spanish : `` Conflicto de Chiapas '' ) refers to the 1994 Zapatista uprising Hostile_encounter , the 1995 Zapatista crisis Hostile_encounter and their aftermath Hostile_encounter , and tensions between the indigenous peoples and subsistence farmers in the Mexican state of Chiapas from the 1990s to the present Presence day .

The principal belligerents of subsection of the conflict Hostile_encounter were the Zapatista Army of National Liberation ( Spanish : `` Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional ; '' ELZN ) and the government of Mexico .

Under the Spanish Empire , Colombia and Ecuador had been part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada , and upon independence from Spain , they had co-existed Presence as part of Greater Colombia between 1819 and 1831 .

Periodic border disputes Quarreling , arising Coming_to_be from the lack of clear borders under the Spanish , were combined Cause_to_amalgamate with occasional attempts to recreate Recovering Greater Colombia to produce Creating tensions .

By this time it had been abandoned GiveUp by the German troops who had fled to the neutral Spanish colony of Rio Muni .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Salamanca ( in French and Spanish known as the Battle Hostile_encounter of Arapiles ) on 22July 1812 was a battle Hostile_encounter in which an Anglo-Portuguese army under the Duke of Wellington defeated Hostile_encounter Marshal Auguste Marmont 's French forces at Arapiles , south of Salamanca , Spain , during the Peninsular War Military_operation .

A Spanish division was also present Presence but took no part in the battle Hostile_encounter .

The Spanish troops took no part in the battle Hostile_encounter as they were positioned Placing to block Hindering French escape routes and suffered Bodily_harm just six casualties Killing .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Rueda ( 981 ) was a battle Hostile_encounter of the Spanish Reconquista between the Muslim forces Causation of Al-Andalus and a coalition Collaboration of north-Iberian Christian states .

The strikes were triggered Causation by the entry of the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right ( CEDA ) into the Spanish government .

The strikes were triggered Causation by the entry of the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right ( CEDA ) into the Spanish government .

Historians have argued Quarreling that the incident sharpened antagonism between the political Right and Left in Spain and was part of the reason for the later Spanish Civil War .

The Siege of Roses or Siege of Rosas from 7 November to 5 December 1808 saw an Imperial French corps led by Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr invest a Catalan and Spanish garrison commanded Control by Peter O'Daly .

In the summer and fall of 1808 , an Imperial French corps under Guillaume Philibert Duhesme was isolated in Barcelona by a 24,000-man Spanish army led by Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu .

The 3,500 Catalan and Spanish defenders of Roses were mostly local miquelets ( militia ) stiffened Hindering by a small unit of regulars from the Fija de Roses garrison .

The defenders eventually capitulated Surrendering , the soldiers and civilians inside the citadel being taken Conquering into captivity in Figueres and the local defenders of the castle being taken Conquering by the British to join Vives ' Spanish forces in the marshes to the south .

Castelnuovo had been conquered Conquering by elements of various Spanish tercios the year before during the failed campaign of the Holy League against the Ottoman Empire in Eastern Mediterranean waters .

These terms were rejected Response by the Spanish commanding Control officer Francisco de Sarmiento and his captains even though they knew Know that the Holy League 's fleet , defeated Conquering at the Battle of Preveza , could not relieve them .

However , Castelnuovo eventually fell Motion_directional into Ottoman hands and almost all the Spanish defenders , including Sarmiento , were killed Killing .

The XV Bolivarian Games Competition ( Spanish : `` Juegos Bolivarianos '' ) were a multi-sport event Competition held Hold between 12–21 August 2005 in Armenia and Pereira , Colombia .

The Siege of Grol in 1627 was a battle Hostile_encounter between the Army of the Dutch Republic commanded Control by Frederick Henry , Prince of Orange and the Spanish controlled Control fortified city of Grol ( now known as Groenlo ) , during the Eighty Years War and the Anglo–Spanish War in 1627 .

The Spanish army led by Hendrik van den Bergh came to Self_motion relieve Grol , but it came too late .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Saguntum ( 25 October 1811 ) saw Causation the Imperial French Army of Aragon under Marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet fighting Hostile_encounter a Spanish army led Causation by Captain General Joaquín Blake .

The Spanish attempt to raise Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the siege Besieging of the Sagunto Castle failed when the French , Italians , and Poles drove their troops off the battlefield in rout Destroying .

When Blake 's army advanced Self_motion from Valencia to raise Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the siege Besieging , Suchet posted Sending his somewhat smaller army to resist Defending the Spanish .

Blake 's attack Attack on Suchet 's right flank went awry and soon the poorly-trained Spanish troops were fleeing Escaping .

The Spanish troops attacking Attack Suchet 's left flank were made Creating of sterner stuff , however , and the contest Hostile_encounter there was more severe .

Finally , the Imperial troops gained Getting the upper hand and put Causation almost the entire Spanish army to flight Escaping .

On 29 June , the Spanish troops of Lieutenant-General Francisco Gómez de Terán y Negrete , Marquess of Portago , started Process_start the operations , and laid siege Besieging to Astorga .