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Irish soldiers in the Spanish Army (27 P) Pages in category "Spanish soldiers" The following 93 pages are in this category, out of 93 total.
The capture of Rheinfelden (1633). The Spanish empire was one of the most powerful in the world and one of largest in history.. The military history of Spain, from the period of the Carthaginian conquests over the Phoenicians to the former Afghan War spans a period of more than 2200 years, and includes the history of battles fought in the territory of modern Spain, as well as her former and ...
A tercio (pronounced), Spanish for "[a] third") was a military unit of the Spanish Army during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and Habsburg Spain in the early modern period. They were the elite military units of the Spanish monarchy and the essential pieces of the powerful land forces of the Spanish Empire , sometimes also fighting ...
Diego García de Paredes (1466–1534), soldier and duellist, he never commanded an army or rose to the position of a general, but he was a notable figure in the wars, when personal prowess had still a considerable share in deciding combat. Diego de los Ríos (1850–1911) Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines
The Spanish Army grew in size from around 20,000 troops in the 1470s to around 300,000 troops by the 1630s during the Thirty Years' War that tore Europe apart, requiring the recruitment of soldiers from across Europe. [4] With such numbers involved, Spain had trouble funding the war effort on so many fronts.
Spanish military personnel killed in action (4 C, 35 P) M. Spanish mercenaries (1 C, 5 P) O. Spanish military officers (3 C, 16 P) P. Spanish military doctors (8 P)
The 250th Infantry Division (German: 250. Infanterie-Division), better known as the Blue Division (Spanish: División Azul, German: Blaue Division), was a unit of volunteers from Francoist Spain operating from 1941 to 1943 within the German Army (Heer) on the Eastern Front during World War II.
Various occupations, such as sailors, fishermen, soldiers and nobles employed different languages (even from unrelated language groups), so that crew and settlers of Iberian empires recorded as Galicians from Spain were actually using Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Italian and Languedoc languages, which were wrongly identified.