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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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En la popa el navío está coronado con tres arcos, de estilo inglés, y adornado con tallas en altorrelieve y un medallón con el busto del rey Carlos III.
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El modelo fue construido en el arsenal de La Carraca entre 1766 y 1767 con el diseño de un plano custodiado en el Museo Naval, perteneciente a un navío de 114 cañones delineado por Ignacio Mullan.
Fue bautizado por su diseñador con el nombre "Real Carlos" para ofrecerlo al rey.
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Hoy, 4 de noviembre, se celebra el día de San Carlos Borromeo y desde el museo queremos mostraros el modelo del navío Real Carlos (1766).
Y antes de seguir, podéis verlo en la sala monográfica B, también conocida como Patio A, un espacio dedicado a la Construcción Naval s XVIII.
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The more you read about Napoleon’s life, the more you realise that behind the glory of an emperor lay a story of immense tragedy, loneliness, and heartbreak of a young men. Sometimes, it genuinely brings tears to your eyes;
When he was badly defeated in the Russia, Not by the Russian army but by the Russian winter(He attacked Russia with 6,00,000 soldiers and returned with just 95,000 soldiers).
And after the devastating defeat at Leipzig and the desperate defence of Paris, his life becomes even more heartbreaking.
Napoleon resigned from the post of emperor of France in 1814. He was defeated by coalition of Britain, Austria and Russia. Bonaparte was just 15 miles away from Paris when he came to know that the city has surrendered. Defeat in Russia played a major role in this.
He ate poison after resigning but poison couldn't kill him (as destiny had chosen something even greater for him). He was caught and sent to Elba. Throughout the way he remembered that how much in life he gained and all that he lost.
He was made the emperor of Elba. There he formed the administration for good governance. Louis 18 was made the emperor of France but he was an incompetent king. He couldn't govern France well. Napoleon was watching all
these events from Elba. He made a historic march from Elba to Paris.
Some infantry units were deployed to stop him.
Napoleon came ahead and said "If you want to kill your general then here I am". To which the soldiers shrouded, “Long live the emperor."
Napoleon now entered the city of Paris. He became the emperor of France for the second time in 1815.
But in 1815, in battle of Waterloo he was defeated by Prussian army and British army. After the defeat he made the resignation from the post of Emperor of France for the second time.
He was arrested and sent to the Saint Helena island and was stripped from the title of Emperor. In his last days he said, "To die is nothing but to live defeated and without glory is to die every day."
When he came to know about the death of Josephine, he didn't come out of his room for two days.
Napoleon always wanted to die the death of a warrior. He used to say, "If the Christ had not been crucified, He would have not been considered as the God by Humans."
On 5 May 1821, Napoleon died on Saint Helena Island.
To witness a man who once commanded the destiny of Europe slowly lose everything he had built is truly painful.
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⏳ ¡Últimos días para descubrir «Gaudí y la ciudad moderna» en Casa Botines!
Una exposición con piezas excepcionales, como el altar Bocabella, una de las primeras creaciones de Antoni Gaudí que se muestra por primera vez en la historia.
¿Quieres una visita más especializada? Todavía puedes reservar tu visita guiada:
• Lunes, jueves y viernes | 18:00 h
• Sábados y domingos | 12:00 h
🎟️ Taquilla y web: tickets.casabotines.es/es/56…
#CasaBotines #Gaudí #León #Museos #Exposiciones
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@aroberts_andrew Was thinking about your interview with Sky and you being asked about the Slave Trade etc. While I definitely don't think Compensation should be paid, it can certainly be acknowledged. Take Picton for example, he's famous as one of Wellingtons Generals who took..
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Nos vemos en Zaragoza a las 12.00 el sábado trataré un poco acerca de los derechos de los recreadores.
12:00h “Derechos de los recreadores: su derecho a la imagen en eventos públicos”, Sergio Pedroviejo (Asociación Madrileña de Estudios Napoleónicos). – at Madrid, Spain
III circular de nuestro congreso, con el programa:
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Last couple of days until the first of our Autumn Online Lecture series - 4 great talks on Wednesday evenings in November on aspects of the 1600s. Watch live or on the catch-up recording! Book now at: cromwellmuseum.org/whats-on/…
