History of Chile/spanish Conquest and Colonization 1540-1810

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

    “Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping
    In the river, never heard
    Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves
    Fling off their iron and cut the green,
    Leaving circles new and clean
    While overhead the wing-tips whirred.”
    —Mark Van Doren (1894–1973)

    “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)