History of Chile/spanish Conquest and Colonization 1540-1810

Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, spanish and/or conquest:

    “Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.”
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    “I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.”
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

    “The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)