SPA-DESCRIPCION DE LAS INDIAS

Title: Catalogo del Museo historico indiano del cavallero Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci, señor de la Torre y de hono: quien llegò a la Nueva España por Febrero del año 1736 ... Author: Benaducci Lorenzo Boturini Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward...

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...

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El tratado Stratagemata de Frontino es una colección de unos quinientos exempla que tratan sobre tácticas militares diversas, astucias, disciplina y hechos y dichos célebres de los grandes caudillos militares de la antigüedad. Esta variada casuística está dispuesta ordenadamente para servir de ayuda e inspiración a los capitanes antes, durante y después de la batalla, con un apartado dedicado al cerco de ciudades. Frontino hizo este trabajo extraordinario de recopilación como apéndice a un tratado militar teórico que se ha perdido. En él su autor nos dibuja un cuadro vivísimo y...