“If I had twenty lives, I would be ready to immolate them for the Catholic religion and for the King of Spain.”
“There is a superior moment in the human species: Spain from 1500 to 1700.”
“Humanity owes eternal gratitude to the Spanish Monarchy, since the multitude of scientific expeditions that it has financed has made possible the extension of geographic knowledge.”
“The Spanish were not only the first conquerors of the New World, and its first colonizers, but also its first civilizers. They built the first cities, opened the first churches, schools, and universities; brought the first printing-presses, made the first books; wrote the first dictionaries, histories, and geographies, and brought the first missionaries; […] One of the wonderful things about this Spanish pioneering […] was the humane and progressive spirit which marked it from first to last.”
The resistance of the Spanish city of Buenos Aires against the British
After the battle of Trafalgar, Great Britain thought that Spain was at its feet. The citizens of Buenos Aires proved them wrong, not once but twice in as many years. Once upon a
