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Unlike other European

Posted by on Thursday, 7 May, 2009

Unlike other European ports, long maritime tradition, the Bay of Algeciras is relatively recent. Until the occupation of Gibraltar by the British (1704), the site of Algeciras had abandoned since the fourteenth century. Refugees fleeing from the city arrived at the site of Algeciras, the city founded on the ruins of the old Muslim settlement.
In the nineteenth century, in 1894, built the first port facility itself, a wooden pier at the mouth of the Rio de la Miel. Since the establishment of the Board of Harbor Works in 1906 to coincide with the Conference of Algeciras starts the growth of the port of Algeciras, thus in 1913 began to build the pier Galera, officially called King Alfonso XIII in 1916 and the Darsena Villanueva.
Expansions at the docks are becoming more difficult because they start to rely on Green Island and not on land, because in 1923 it installed two large cranes, Goliath and Titan izaban that the stones that came in large boats to in 1926 the construction of a bridge linking the island with the land and the passing train. in 1930 the pier was built in 1932 and fishing the north breakwater was protected from storms. However, the growth of the port began in the second half of the twentieth century. In 1964 he settled in the area and an industrial chemist whose greatest exponents would Cepsa refinery and factory stainless Acerinox. Until then, fishing and passenger traffic between the two sides of the Strait of Gibraltar were the most important activities in the area.
In 1967 the port facilities with extensive incorporation of the port of La Linea de la Concepcion, called since then Port Algeciras-La Linea.
In the sixties, the containerized cargo traffic experienced a boom, which together with the installation on the major shipping port of Land and Sea in the mid-seventies and Maersk A decade later, definitely enhance the port area of Thus in 1976 opens the container terminal at Sea-Land and the 1986 AP Moller-Maersk Group started its activity in the port.
Since 1982 the Port Algeciras-La Linea he joined the Port of Tarifa across the straits to expand the jurisdiction of the Port Authority. Since 1993 the port is now called the Port Authority of Algeciras Bay in addition to the ports of Algeciras, La Linea and Tarifa includes berths Camp, Puente Mayorga and pontoons of CEPSA and Acerinox.

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Posted by on Monday, 4 May, 2009

Squad and techniques

Posted by on Sunday, 3 May, 2009

Thirds marching in formation during the Battle of Nieuport in 1600.
From left to right: Alabardero, Alferez and arquebusiers.
The frame of the Tercio had three classes of fighters: boobies, arquebusiers and musketeers. Also available artillery, and occasional cavalry (eg.: Battle of Cerinola).
The birds used the pike, between 3 and 6 m in length, and also wore a belt tied to his sword. According to his defensive weaponry fell into “picas dry ‘and’ spades armadas (coseletes boobies or heavy). The first half wore armor cap or sometimes morrion. The latter were protected with morrion or helmet, breastplate, back and thighs escarcelas covering attached to the breastplate. The sword was his great asset in any melee, management and the Spanish had a reputation acreditadisima. Was usually double-edged and not used to measure more than one meters to become lighter and more transportable.
The Musketeers took a team very similar to the arquebusiers, but differed in that instead of harquebus, using a musket, or a wider scope and size, which also required the support of shooting with a fork mounted on the floor and instead of morrion, chambergo hat. Allowed them to leave their scope of training in the shelter closed and after firing squad. It was an extraordinary innovation in its time thanks to the intelligence of the Duke of Alba, who decided to make muskets in thirds in 1567, where previously only served in the defense of walled places, especially in Barbary prisons in northern africa.
The Spaniards kept military hegemony in the sixteenth century and much of the seventeenth century, although his enemies were inspired by their own coping techniques. Hosts increased their strength and began to suffer massive casualties. The generals of the time then chose not to plant large battles, but a concentrated effort to engage the sockets of major cities to force a treaty that would lead to the end of the war, this is temporary or long term. An aphorism of lansquenetes of those times quite rightly said: “God of a hundred years of war and not a single day batalla .
Large formations of the thirds were using the baptized by the Spaniards as “art squad, and treaties of the time are full of formulas and tables to make squads of up to 8000 men. By then they had disappeared completely individual exploits in the Middle Ages enjoyed so much fame and prestige for the soldier because the infantry was based entirely on anonymous. The officers and soldiers had a distinguished horse for the gear, but all fighting foot to ground, embedded in large square or rectangular formation with a strictly imposed discipline alignment movements and maneuvers. During the journey, the troops used to always travel in column, but then fought grouped into geometric blocks.
These blocks easily rejected the cavalry and fought skillfully combined with the rest of the infantry, but should avoid to the extent of the fees, since that could suffer serious damage and casualties. The threat of enemy artillery in a battle was made clear to all armies of the time especially after the battle of Marignane, in which the French artillery pounding the tables Swiss. All the generals were present then this factor, although in fact the pieces of artillery were slight and very difficult to move on steep terrain or muddy, such as in the fields of Flanders. It should be noted, however, that the infantry was the only one who could best move in the narrow spaces left canals, dams, bridges or walls in Flanders.
The Third used to be like the typical training squad named clubs. The remaining troops’ cavalry and arquebusiers’ debian support their action on their sleeves or sides to prevent the enemy is involved, but sometimes also formed small tables at the corners. This tactic was used in more open country, passing through the orders of a sergeant major of the company sergeants and their captains, who moved to the troops. All movements were performed in complete silence, so that only at the time of the crash was allowed to scream Santiago! or Spain! .
The doctrine of the time established clubs to raise horses, face and boobies arcabuceria to launch arquebusiers cavalry on the enemy, and that these, after the first shot, they were very vulnerable until they loaded the gun again.

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