1936/03/09: The hotheaded, toothbrush-mustached Spanish Catalan, Luis Companys, became a rebel when he added to the chaos of Spain's October 1934 revolution by declaring his native province, rich, industrial Catalonia, an independent republic. He became a martyr...
1804/11/15: TO WILLIAM MARSDEN, ESQ., ADMIRALTY.
Victory, off Barcelona, November 15th, 1804.
The appearances of a rupture with Spain induced me to proceed off this place, in hopes of hearing from his Majesty's Minister at the Court of Madrid; or, should...
1939/02/13: Early this week Loyalist resistance in northern Catalonia collapsed, and in a swift advance northward from Gerona the Rebel Armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco occupied Figueras, for eleven days the fourth capital of Loyalist Spain. As last as t...
1824/02/22: Alicante, 22nd February. At Barcelona in Catalonia they boil the cork bark in place of burning it, which makes it white, clean, and very elastic. All of the cork used in Britain under the name of French corks are sent from Barcelona to France and shi...
1909/08/04: SPANISH GAYETY PERSISTS.; Even in Barcelona People Have Apparently Forgotten Revolt.
LONDON, Aug. 4. -- The Daily Telegraph's special correspondent, who has just arrived in Barcelona, sends to his paper a dispatch giving a curious picture of the i...
