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José Romero Y Fernández De Landa
José Romero y Fernández de Landa (1735–1807), better known as Romero Landa was a Spanish naval and army officer and the Spanish Navy's first official naval engineer and Naval architecture, ship designer. He designed several two-and Three-decker, three-deck Ship of the line, ships of the line in the late 18th and early 19th centuries which fought at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780), Battle of Cape St Vincent and the Battle of Trafalgar. He is also notable as the writer of ''Reglamento de maderas necesarias para la fábrica de los baxeles del Rey'' (''Rules for the wood necessary for building the King's ships''), published in 1784, and which specified the number and dimensions of the hulls, equipment, masts and rigging for ships of 100, 74, 64 and 34 guns. Life On 27 May 1752 Romero Landa joined the Regimiento de dragoon, Dragones de Edimburgo at Arcos de la Llana, Villa de Arcos, commanding a company. In 1754 he transferred to the navy, becoming an 'alférez de fragata' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huelva
Huelva (, ) is a city in southwestern Spain, the capital of the province of Huelva in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is between two short rias though has an outlying spur including nature reserve on the Gulf of Cádiz coast. The rias are of the Odiel and Tinto rivers and are good natural harbors. According to the 2010 census, the city had a population of 149,410. Huelva is home to Recreativo de Huelva, the oldest football club in Spain. While the existence of a pre-Phoenician settlement within the current urban limits since circa 1250 BC has been tentatively defended by scholars, Phoenicians established a stable colony roughly by the 9th century BC. History Protohistory At least up to the 1980s and 1990s, the mainstream view was that Huelva at first was an autochthonous Tartessian settlement (even the very same Tartessos mentioned in Greek sources) yet some later views tended to rather stress a pluri-ethnic enclave mixing natives with peoples with a mainly Phoenici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
