Gran iniciativa
Continuamos un año más con el tradicional Ciclo de Conferencias. 🍂Días de Otoño. Trades de Archivo🍂en el #ARCHV.
En esta ocasión con el título "Del linaje al capital: élites y movilidad social” 👉4, 11 y 18 de noviembre a las 19:30 h.
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Continuamos un año más con el tradicional Ciclo de Conferencias. 🍂Días de Otoño. Trades de Archivo🍂en el #ARCHV.
En esta ocasión con el título "Del linaje al capital: élites y movilidad social” 👉4, 11 y 18 de noviembre a las 19:30 h.
👉cultura.gob.es/cultura/areas…
Lest we forget! General Mendizabal @condecuadroalba was there too commanding spanish forces. The commander-in-chief, Joaquín Blake, pointed that he fought and led the troops during the most dangerous episodes of the battle.
#MendizabalWednesday
A French canister ball tore into Lieutenant-Colonel William Inglis near the neck and lodged in his back. His men moved to carry him to the rear. He refused. He refused the surgeon too. He had them lay him down beneath the colours of the 57th Foot, in the open, facing a French column some 8,000 strong — and from there he gave his regiment one order, over and over again.
16 May 1811. Albuera, Spain. Marshal Beresford's British, Portuguese and Spanish army is covering the siege of Badajoz, and Marshal Soult has come to break it. He swings round the Allied right. Then a hailstorm hides Polish lancers until they are inside a British brigade, and three of its battalions are gone in minutes. That leaves a hole in the line, and one brigade to fill it.
Major-General Hoghton's brigade — the 29th, the 48th and the 57th West Middlesex, 1,651 men — halts in line against a French column of 8,000, with guns firing grape and canister into the ranks at 300 yards. No cover. No manoeuvre. Only the line.
Hoghton is killed. Inglis has his horse shot from under him. Then the canister finds him. He lies beneath the colours, bleeding, and as the files are shot away the men hear him above the guns: "Die hard, 57th! Die hard!"
They do. The King's colour is hit seventeen times, the Regimental colour twenty-one, its staff broken. The line does not go back — and it holds until the Fusiliers come up and break the French.
The 57th went up the ridge 647 strong. 428 were killed or wounded — two men in every three. Beresford wrote that their dead lay "as they fought in the ranks, every wound in front."
Inglis lived, and was back in the field by 1813. His regiment were the Die Hards for the rest of their history, and every 16 May Albuhera Day is still kept.
Two men in three fell on that ridge. The line never went back. That is what the name means.
The 57th held that ridge with two men in three down. Stories like theirs only survive if someone keeps telling them, properly and without apology. That’s what Guardians make possible. Hold the line with me: thestoicenglish.com/guardian…
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A French canister ball tore into Lieutenant-Colonel William Inglis near the neck and lodged in his back. His men moved to carry him to the rear. He refused. He refused the surgeon too. He had them lay him down beneath the colours of the 57th Foot, in the open, facing a French column some 8,000 strong — and from there he gave his regiment one order, over and over again.
16 May 1811. Albuera, Spain. Marshal Beresford's British, Portuguese and Spanish army is covering the siege of Badajoz, and Marshal Soult has come to break it. He swings round the Allied right. Then a hailstorm hides Polish lancers until they are inside a British brigade, and three of its battalions are gone in minutes. That leaves a hole in the line, and one brigade to fill it.
Major-General Hoghton's brigade — the 29th, the 48th and the 57th West Middlesex, 1,651 men — halts in line against a French column of 8,000, with guns firing grape and canister into the ranks at 300 yards. No cover. No manoeuvre. Only the line.
Hoghton is killed. Inglis has his horse shot from under him. Then the canister finds him. He lies beneath the colours, bleeding, and as the files are shot away the men hear him above the guns: "Die hard, 57th! Die hard!"
They do. The King's colour is hit seventeen times, the Regimental colour twenty-one, its staff broken. The line does not go back — and it holds until the Fusiliers come up and break the French.
The 57th went up the ridge 647 strong. 428 were killed or wounded — two men in every three. Beresford wrote that their dead lay "as they fought in the ranks, every wound in front."
Inglis lived, and was back in the field by 1813. His regiment were the Die Hards for the rest of their history, and every 16 May Albuhera Day is still kept.
Two men in three fell on that ridge. The line never went back. That is what the name means.
The 57th held that ridge with two men in three down. Stories like theirs only survive if someone keeps telling them, properly and without apology. That’s what Guardians make possible. Hold the line with me: thestoicenglish.com/guardian…
The "Diktat". The Judgment
11 Nov 1918, Marshal Foch (France), Admiral Wemyss (Britain) & Etzberger, member of Reichstag, (Germany) sign armistice ending #WW1. Latter protested harshness of terms, "a nation of 70 millions can suffer, but it cannot die." It came into effect at 11am Paris time. #armisticeday
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2. Meet Polydoor Moens. Blond hair, blue eyes. Born in April 1895. He is in the army on the 1st of August 1914. Three days before the Germans invade.
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Turns out this isn’t my direct great-grandfather after all, just a family member somewhere in the tree. May never know the precise branch, yet that doesn’t mean I can’t honour him.
Lest we forget. #RemembranceDay2026 #ArmisticeDay
This will be a thread. 1.
When my grandparents passed away we ran into this little black book. Judging from the content, it had belonged to my great grandfather. I never met him nor have heard any stories about him. Let’s open it. #RemembranceDay #ArmisticeDay
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Paciencia, temple y buenos alimentos hasta conseguir sacar sin 'invitados' la fachada principal de la Colegiata de Santa Juliana de la siempre animada Santillana del Mar (Cantabria) 😊
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Le 10 nov. 1808, la bataille de Burgos (ou Gamonal) oppose le 2e corps du maréchal Soult à l’armée espagnole d’Estremadure commandée par le marquis de Belveder.
La division du général Mouton et la cavalerie de Bessières enfoncent les lignes adverses, les forçant à se replier.
That day there was not there the 7th Spanish Army led by general Mendizabal @condecuadroalba. In October 1812 they were there and stopped the advance of Caffarelli´s Army that was trying to pursue Wellington´s retreating Army.
#MendizabalWednesday
Le 10 nov. 1808, la bataille de Burgos (ou Gamonal) oppose le 2e corps du maréchal Soult à l’armée espagnole d’Estremadure commandée par le marquis de Belveder.
La division du général Mouton et la cavalerie de Bessières enfoncent les lignes adverses, les forçant à se replier.
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Es #MiércolesMendizabal. Un gran día para recordar a ese general español que luchó contra las fuerzas napoleónicas y las derrotó tanto en España como en Francia
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It´s #MendizabalWednesday. A great day to remember that spanish general who fought and defeated the napoleonic forces both in Spain and France
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#TalDíaComoHoy de 1736 falleció José Patiño en La Granja de San Ildefonso de Segovia.
Intendente General de la Real Armada Española, Primer Ministro, Secretario de Hacienda, Marina e Indias, consiguió que España resurgiera como potencia marítima.
ALT Retrato de José Patiño. Busto, ligeramente girado a su izquierda, mirando al observador, con peluca. Viste casaca, camisa de cuello vuelto y lleva el toisón y venera de la orden de Santiago.
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La tipología del modelo sería posteriormente aplicada en La Habana para la construcción del Santísima Trinidad, navío muy conocido que participó en acontecimientos navales como el combate de San Vicente (1797) y en 1805 en la batalla de Trafalgar.
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Su policromía permite conocer la pintura de los navíos de la época, así la obra viva va pintada de color blanco, las cintas de negro y los entrepuentes e interior de las portas de rojo.
