Excerpt from The History of Spain, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Year 1809 Accellion of Charles IL - Calamitous {late of Spain. - Peace with Portu gal. - War between Spain and france.-peace concluded - Faflions of the Court of Madrid - Elevation and fall of Nitard. - Elevation of Valenzuela. - His charaeler. - tordered {late of the Spanifh finances. - Confederacy of Spain, Holland, and Germany, againll France. Operations of the war. - Power and popularity of Valenzuela. Defeat of the combined fleets of Spain and Holland by the French. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The History of Spain, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Establishment of the Colony of Gades by the Phoenicians, to the Death of Ferdinand, Surnamed the Sage 00 thi', lfletherlands-situation of the Inhabitants-rm peculiar Privileges - Difgpfied with thematic - They-are inclined to the Protelhnt Faith - Theyree moufirate agaipfi the Costiaaagcebofifogeigu Forces in. The Low Countriewfidininifiratidn' of'ihe Ducbefe-of Patina - Chateau of Cardinal Grapvelle-aothe primddfiteflta. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from History of Spain, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Earliest Times to the Death, of Ferdinand the Catholic But with John II. A new era was opened in Castile. The temper of the king, unlike that of his great predecessor, was literary rather than scientific, pedantic rather than scholarly, formal rather than substantial, graceful rather than profound. The new influence came rather from Italy than from Andalusia. Aragon, the refuge and the home of the Provencal troubadours in the thirteenth century, had stretched out her hands in the fourteenth century to Sicily, and in the fifteenth century to Naples 2 and long before the time of Ferdinand the Catholic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Short History of Spain, Vol. 2 of 2 XIX. Renueva, the heroine who defended Haarlem, from Strada. Attack of the bull on foot, from the art of bull fighting. Costume of Murcia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.