Cuellar described the natives as savages paupers.

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History offers us many ties of relationship between Ireland and Spain. One, essential for the modern age, is derived from the existence of a common enemy, England, perfidious Albion. The adventures of frustrated Invincible, sunk off the coast of Ireland, led to all kinds of legends and romantic reviews. Are Spanish-born Irish brown hair (especially Galway)?, What about the last name Spain? Miquel Silvestre traces the historical truth in an article published on 7 September in journals Vocento Group. I also recommend the gloss on this article has made our friend Carmen Leal on her blog Tree Woman. .
Between 16 September and 26 October 1588 twenty-five ships of the Spanish Armada sank off the Irish coast while returning from the disastrous attempt to conquer England. Although the Invincible was a later addition which corresponds ironic parenthood Admiral Lord Howard of Effingham. British Humor aside, the reality is that they had never seen a similar force. In May 130 ships sailed from Lisbon with 30,000 men from the top thirds of Flanders.
Don Álvaro de Bazán, Marquis de Santa Cruz, who first inoculated the idea in the mind of Philip II, pretender to the English throne by his marriage to Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII. The rest of the work was done by Pope Sixtus V. Any inconvenience was overcome with incontestable religious argument. "God is with us."
Irish still tragic epic attributed to some national myths, such as "black irish" native brown by mixing Spanish blood. In Cairncastle, Northern Ireland, powerschool there is a rare and old walnut tree in a cemetery, say he was born of the seed buried there shipwrecked in his pocket. Ireland is the land of fables, not in vain is a country of just over three million people that has four Nobel prizes for literature. Is there any truth in such legend powerschool pub?
In the National Library in Dublin there is a lot of literature on the wrecks of the "Spanish Armada". A name appears repeatedly: Francisco de Cuellar, Captain of the San Pedro, shipwrecked in Sligo, who wrote his adventure and portray local life long before I did the ironic and cruel manners of Jonathan Swift.
In Crange, a small town north of Sligo, meeting a sign: Spanish powerschool Armada. The Cuellar's Trail. Wear up Streedagh Strand beach. It is a desolate and vast landscape. Not a single tree over their heads. I climb atop a small arena and from there contemplate the Atlantic Ocean to the hills of Donegal as background. There is a small stone monument shaped boat. A plaque commemorates the shipwreck of La Juliana, La Santa Maria Lavia and Mink.
The Bed and Breakfast Mount Edward Lodge wonder if they know something of the Spaniards. The owner shows me a book. It is the letter of Francisco de Cuellar published in London in 1885. The manuscript remained hidden for three hundred years at the Royal Academy of History. In 1884 rescued Captain Cesareo Fernandez Duro and has since been constantly Saxon reissues.
1,200 men traveling with only 300 survive Cuellar. They were immediately stripped of all they had. He himself would be wounded and stripped by natives. Still, I was lucky. The region was infested with English soldiers. Fearful that the Spaniards would encourage a rebellion, the orders were to kill them where they found them and impose the same fate to anyone who will shelter them.
In the local pub youth know nothing, but more Irish recalls the story of Peter White, a former bodyguard of Hugh O'Neall, Earl of Tyrone, one of the few allies they found the Spaniards. A descendant of his, Owen Roe O'Neill would years later in the Irish Regiment of Spanish Army of Flanders.
Cuellar described the natives as savages paupers. "His nature is that of cattle in the mountains." "They live in thatched huts and sleep on the floor." Despite the common religion to bring them to St. Patrick in 432, it is reasonable to imagine that such a poor rich in Spanish saw an unexpected gift. Cuellar Crange escaped towards Castletown, east, seeking the protection of Leitrim O'Rourke powerschool local warlord