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The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

Era ayudante del Gobernador español de Victoria de Las Tunas, su hombre de confianza. Nadie sospechaba que el francés Charles Filiberto Peiso, fuese el agente Aristipo de la inteligencia mambisa, figura clave en la toma de la mencionada ciudad. Tampoco levantaba dudas de su fidelidad a España la hija del general español Emilio March, la dulce joven María Machado, agente secreta del lugarteniente general Calixto García. Nadie imaginaba que el ilustre músico holandés Hubert de Blank y el agente 209 de los servicios secretos del Ejército Libertador eran la misma persona. El presbítero...

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Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau hace un recorrido, a través de sus bocetos de batallas, por la historia de España: la Edad Media, los Tercios, los principales enfrentamientos de los siglos xvii-xix, hasta llegar a las misiones españolas actuales en Afganistán, Mali o Líbano.