#reconquest

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[thomaswaynewolf]

The Spanish Southwest: The Reconquest of New Mexico by the Last Spanish Knight — The American Southwest

This episode of the American Southwest Podcast is the 3rd in the series about the Spanish and the Native American inhabitants of the region

New episode is out! This episode of the American Southwest Podcast is the 3rd in the series about the Spanish and the Native American inhabitants of the region and specifically about the 1692 Reconquest of the Territory of New Mexico after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. I discuss the battles, the peoples, and most importantly, the Spanish leader of the Reconquest, a Spaniard named Don Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon y Contreras. The last male descendant in the Noble Vargas line of Madrid.

[der-gorgonaut]

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by Georg Nickolaus

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

A depiction of the Battle of Covadonga (in a decorated initial from a 12th-century illustrated manuscript of the Liber testamentorum. Pelayo, crowned and holding a cross, is leading at the top.

        The battle that took place in 718 or 722 between the army of Pelagius the Visigoth and the army of the Umayyad Caliphate. Battle was fought near Covadonga in the Picos de Europe, either in 718 or 722. It resulted in a victory for the forces of Pelagius. It is traditionally regarded as the foundational event of the Kingdom of Asturias and thus the initial point of the Reconquista ("reconquest") of Spain after the Muslim invasion of 711.

         P.S. It looks, that European ancestors had a knowledge how to resolve the “Islamist terror” problem and saved European civilization back then…., but our modern “neoliberals” are preferring to erase indigenous European history from books…. What about you? Are you ready to sell out European “values” for oil & gas profits, and cheap political talk...just to appease dictatorships and religious extremists... ?   

[danddfan-madeconcepts]

Revolution of the Conquered (campaign idea)

Here's one for you Dm's that wnat a campaign based around revolution & the aftermath.

They came, The saw, They Conquered. The wold we once know has been spoiled by the sound of metal & death. It has been 15 years since then, & our conquerors fall weak. An economy driven by war, falls weak when theres no war to be had. Their armies denorilized from wither the deaths & horrors faces along the way, or the lack of a need for a large standing army. Leadership has been devided on how to fix these problems & the lacl of action has become the answer to all. Under these conditions we can rise again & throw out our invaders.

But can our revolution size up a force strong enough to throw out our invaders & stand strong against their inevitable counter attack. Will the nations of old, once the inavders are driven out, fall against eachother as they once did before. Will peace be secured for a time or will rivaling ambitions lead us back to a situation where our conquest will come again. Will the people of the nations of old unite together into one glorious new empire or will our cooperation fall to the wayside when it's no longer needed.

Only time will tell what happens & it's up to us to decide how the future will unfold.

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St James the Greater Conquering the Moors

by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Moorish Tower on the Spanish coast by Alexander Rothaug

Around the turn of the century Rothaug traveled widely in southern Europe, including around Dalmatia, Bosnia, Italy and Spain, where the present painting is set. The architecture in this work bears strong similarities to the castle and 16th century tower found in the Spanish coastal town of Tossa de Mar in Catalonia. The tower, known as the Torre des Moros (Tower of the Moors), is actually located in the hills overlooking the town, but the Castillo de Tossa de Mar is situated on the coast, partially extending on a rocky outcrop into the sea. It is possible that Rothaug saw both sites while on his travels and conflated them into a single architectural motif, adding the imagined figurative elements to create a historicizing episode within this dramatic setting.