La profecia de Orion

La situación, como ustedes verán, es crítica. Ha llegado el momento de sacrificarse por la patria. Que cada uno ocupe su puesto y cumpla con su deber». (TENIENTE CORONEL FERNANDO PRIMO DE RIVERA, JEFE DEL ALCÁNTARA). La gesta del regimiento de caballería Alcántara en la guerra del Rif, durante los trágicos días de Annual (verano de 1921), constituye un capítulo imborrable de la historia militar. Fieles a su lema: «Disipa como el sol las nubes a su paso», los jinetes del Alcántara cargaron repetidas veces contra las posiciones enemigas, sabiendo que les esperaba una muerte segura. ...

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

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