cdign(v) Gabriel de Mendizábal Iraeta Thats a splendid book

Es bien sabido que hasta principios del siglo XX hubo varias obras maestras del Greco en Valladolid 🎨 Hoy se encuentran en museos norteamericanos, donde son piezas clave de sus respectivas colección 🏛️ Veamos cuáles son en este mini hilo 🧵

Curso gratuito presencial sobre la #GuerradelaIndependencia en #ArandadeDuero y la provincia de #Burgos. Será los días 4 y 5 de septiembre y, por los ponentes, se prevé un alto nivel. novaciencia.es/aranda-de-duer…

Marshal Oudinot, having survived an estimated 33 wounds, received his last in 1814. His Légion d’Honneur, awarded for fearlessness in battle, deflected a musket ball which was headed for his breast. Though it stung, he survived, as ever, and died of old age at eighty!

A long overdue book...

El 26 de agosto de 1542 la expedición de Francisco de Orellana alcanzaba la desembocadura del Amazonas, tras una dura odisea de 9 meses (7 de ellos por el Amazonas) desde que se separaron de otra expedición mayor. Descubrieron y descendieron el río más grande de la Tierra.

On this day in 1813, a French army blunders into a column of Prussian and Russian troops during a thunderstorm near Liegnitz (in present-day Poland). The skirmish quickly escalates into the Battle of the Katzbach, one of the largest clashes of the Napoleonic Wars.

On this day in 1810 the powder magazine at Almeida exploded unexpectedly. Consequently the British garrison (which had hoped to stall the French invasion of Portugal for some time) was forced to capitulate the following day.

📅#OTD 1645. Bristol. At 4am, Prince Rupert's garrison make a third sally from the city, to attack the New Model Army besieging force. The royalists enjoy much success. During the action, Sir Bernard Astley (son of Baron Jacob Astley) and two others are engaged by a party of

Pedazo palacio que se vende a unos kilómetros de Oviedo. Si fuese millonario ya tendría un plan...

La serie documental "El Prado en femenino" cuenta con episodios dedicados a Isabel la Católica, María de Hungría, Isabel de Valois, Isabel Clara Eugenia, Isabel de Borbón, Cristina de Suecia o Mariana de Austria. Disponible en YouTube youtube.com/playlist?list=…

#OTD 1813, at the height of Napoleon’s campaign to save his empire in central Europe, his deputy Marshal Macdonald suffered a disastrous defeat at the Katzbach River. Short of cavalry and strung out, his forces ran straight into Blücher’s Army of Silesia in poor weather. 🧵Below

El Puente de Alcántara y el Alcázar de Toledo ❤️ #FelizMiercoles #BuenosDias

Y quién no, siendo millonario, claro 😁

Interesting point. This means that decorations are useful in many ways 😁

Emilio La Parra y Arsenio García Fuertes. Ya sólo esos dos nombres lo hacen imperdible... Gran noticia para el nuevo #MiércolesMendizabal 😁

Richard Sharpe knows a couple of things about that...😁

Remember, it´s #MendizabalWednesday again. The day to remember general Mendizabal Gabriel de Mendizábal Iraeta, that stubborn enemy of the napoleonic armies

Recordad, es #MiércolesMendizabal de nuevo. El día para recordar al general Mendizabal Gabriel de Mendizábal Iraeta, ese tenaz enemigo de los ejércitos napoleónicos

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