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Relation de Charles-Quint contre Alger suivie de la traduction du texte latin par Pierre Tolet (in French). Alger: Juillet-St-Lage; Des tumeurs oultre le coustumier de nature (1543) Paradoxe de la faculte du vinaigre, contre les escrits des Modernes, ou plusieurs choses sont demonstrees non eslongnees de la vérité (in French).
During the expedition against Algiers in October 1541, Charles V held a council of war among the ruins of the ancient Rusgunia. [35] After this expedition, Marmol [36] described it as an ancient city in the splendour of Roman times, in whose harbour the ships of Algiers anchored. The author points out that its ruins were reused in the ...
The legend of his life has him as a Roman citizen who was martyred in Gaul.He is said to have been the son of a man named Zeno, who had senatorial rank. Filled with apostolic zeal, Quentin traveled to Gaul as a missionary with Lucian, who was later martyred at Beauvais, and others (the martyrs Victoricus and Fuscian are said to have been Quentin's followers).
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The Charles V Wall is a 16th-century defensive curtain wall that forms part of the fortifications of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Originally called Muralla de San Benito (English: St. Benedict's Wall), it was built in 1540 and strengthened in 1552 by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V .
Charles wrote most of his military biography of king Louis XIV of France after his military career had ended. According to his elder brother, Joseph Sevin de Quincy, the author of Mémoires du chevalier de Quincy, who also had a military career, Charles borrowed freely from the latter's diaries, without attribution, for the military history in that work.
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Equestrian Portrait of Charles V by Titian.. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558), the first ruler of an empire where the sun never set, [1] has traditionally attracted considerable scholarly attention and also raises controversies among historians regarding his character, his rule and achievements (or failures) in the countries in his personal empire, as well as various social ...