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Soldados de cuera and Indian auxiliaries, 1720. The soldados de cuera (English, "leather-jacket soldier") [1] served in the frontier garrisons of northern New Spain, the Presidios, from the late 16th to the early 19th century. [2] They were mounted and were an exclusive corps in the Spanish Empire. They took their name from the multi-layered ...
v. t. e. A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict. [ 1] Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to study the nature of potential conflicts. Many wargames re-create specific historic battles, and can ...
Salomón de la Selva (March 20, 1893 – February 5, 1959) was a Nicaraguan poet and honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Language. Biography [ edit ] Salomón de la Selva was born on March 20, 1893, in León , Nicaragua , son of Salomón Selva Glenton and Evangelina Escoto Baca and the oldest of nine children.
The War Cross ( Spanish: Cruz de Guerra) is a high military award of Spain to recognise battlefield bravery. This decoration aims to prize those who have realized actions or facts of great efficiency, or they have given excellent services, both with valour during a continued period, inside one armed conflicts or of military operations involving ...
Soldiers of Salamis (Spanish: Soldados de Salamina) is a novel about the Spanish Civil War published in 2001 by Spanish author Javier Cercas. It is composed in a mixture of fact and fiction, which is something of a speciality of the author. [1] The book was acclaimed by critics in Spain and was top of the best-seller book list there for many ...
Plate 3: Lo mismo ( The same ). A Spanish civilian about to decapitate a French soldier with an axe. [ 1] The Disasters of War ( Spanish: Los desastres de la guerra) is a series of 82 [ a 1] prints created between 1810 and 1820 by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya (1746–1828). Although Goya did not make known his intention ...
1–8 (or more) hours (player dependent) Chance. medium. Age range. 8+. Skills. Tactics, Strategy, and Negotiation. Plan Táctico y Estratégico de la Guerra (commonly referred to as TEG) is an Argentinian strategy board wargame published in 1976, based on the game Risk. The name is Spanish for Tactical and Strategical War Plan .
Ruse de guerre. The French ruse de guerre, sometimes literally translated as ruse of war, is a non-uniform term; generally what is understood by "ruse of war" can be separated into two groups. The first classifies the phrase purely as an act of military deception against one's opponent; the second emphasizes acts against one's opponent by ...