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Battle of Almanza

Trevor | 6 May 2007 1:19 PM | Les bourgeois, Of wars, games and stuff, Splog

Bye, bye, Spain examines the bizarre nationalist obsession with some obscure and complex dynastic conflict some centuries back. Two facts only are worth remembering about Almansa: (i) once upon a time an English general with a French army beat a French general with an English one before its walls, and (ii) they sell rather nice sausages in the market.

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