Guadalajara

She began by endeavoring to gain over several high personages, and on perceiving that the men avoided speaking with her on serious business, she addressed herself to their mothers, wives, or daughters.

In a letter to Marshal Montmorency, then with the king, she thus refers to the Duke del Infantado, who had received her at his castle of Guadalajara.

"You will tell the king that the duke has been warned from the court that if he wishes to please the emperor, neither he nor his son is to speak to me.

But the ladies are not forbidden me, and to them I will speak twofold." Throughout the negotiations for her brother's release, Margaret always maintained the dignity and reserve fitting to her sex and situation.

... kind of Essex towns.

They're gonna be in Móstoles, Leganés, maybe even Guadalajara, which is in Castilla-La Mancha.

But going to Cáceres or as you did in, in Mérida feels like people are still living within those beautiful spaces and they've not been kind of taken away from them yet.

But, you know, before we go onto the football, and you can talk about the two teams that you went to see, was there a particular moment or a, a particular place that you went whilst you were traveling around that made you really feel like, God, I, if you could put me anywhere right now, this is where I'd come back to?

The reason I think it's significant to mention those three places is that they're all on the south coast of Spain, staring out at the Arab world, and it's just a reminder that, you know, southern Spain was an, a part of the Arab world for very, very many centuries.

And then you've got places like, so, so people will know of Guadalajara and they'll think of Mexico, but m- the one in Mexico is named after a city of the same name in Spain.

And the Guada there is from the Arabic wadi, but it's just been ro- Romanized into Guada.

And so that means valley.

Guadalajara means valley of stones, or, or river of stones-

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The North Falls, 1937.

Madrid and its northeastern flank in Guadalajara hold against relentless assault.

Franco's strategic focus, the capture of Madrid, leads to a grinding struggle over several months which sees no improvement in the nationalist situation.

After failed nationalist offensives in Yarama and Guadalajara cause heavy Spanish and Italian casualties, successes elsewhere, such as the taking of Malaga and a large swath of territory in southern Spain, encourage nationalist forces to look elsewhere for more vulnerable threats.

The nationalist strategy shifts mostly away from fixation upon prestige targets and toward attrition warfare.

And I'll point out one thing there, Pete.

This is often with an asterisk to the great frustration of his allies and commentators.

Because you'll see the reference.

She began by endeavoring to gain over several high personages, and on perceiving that the men avoided speaking with her on serious business, she addressed herself to their mothers, wives, or daughters.

In a letter to Marshal Montmorency, then with the King, she thus refers to the Duke del Infantado, who had received her at his castle of Guadalajara: "You will tell the King that the Duke has been warned from the court that if he wishes to please the Emperor neither he nor his son is to speak to me.

But the ladies are not forbidden me, and to them I will speak twofold." Throughout the negotiations for her brother's release Margaret always maintained the dignity and reserve fitting to her sex and situation.

Writing to Francis on this subject, she says, "The Viceroy, Lannoy, has sent me word that he is of the opinion I should go and see the Emperor, but I have told him through Monsieur de Saint-Lea that I have not yet stirred from my lodging without being asked, and that whenever it pleases the Emperor to see me I shall be found there." Margaret was repeatedly admitted to the Imperial Council to discuss the conditions of her brother's ransom.