The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-20
TODAY IN HISTORY
SATURDAY., AUGUST 20. 1910.
Spain Defeated at saraaossa.

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| leat OF the Spanish forces at Saragossa,
an event OF great importance in Spanish
history II was the chief event Of the
war OF the Spanish Succession. Wink n
led shortly afterward To the re-estab-
llshment of King Philip and the Bourbon
cause.
or Zaragoza, itself corruption OF tho
more splendid ono OF "Caesaraugusta" "
bestowed by Its Roman colonizers. COW
ers today a rather melancholy and mil
| dewed collection of ancient houses in the
Spanish province OF Aragon.
The AlJaferia, the historic citadel built
| by Moors, seized by Christians and
| cesslvely becoming military barracks.
a hospital and prison, Is now going
| into decay. saragossa. the ancient capi-
to either the past or the future for her
greatness.
Two hundred years ago today. how
| ever. the towers OF the Aljaferia over
chronicled victory which brought much
nearer to an ending this bloody war.
10 an unhistorical Anglo Saxon mind
this famous war seems chiefly to have
| been fought out In order TO create. for
the first duke of Marlborough a glorI-
Gus reputation. Its very name Is in a
sests a ife-and death struggle in the
country concerned, for Spain took the
whole disturbance far more easily than
did The other powers of Europe.
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pire Joined against France. who. as the
historians oarelessly add. chad Spain for
an ally. but Spain had nsither money
Germany were the chief scenes OF mill
tary operations, and the belligerent pow
ers were: indeed. warning not with
| SPAIN but over Spain.
| Three claimant kings, with rights per-
| plexingly equal, genealogicaly speaking,
were the cause OF the dispute. In the
year 100 the fayorite bad dream OF the
OF Spain died, and the long. dreaded ex-
tinction OF the Hapsburgh dynasty had
taken place. The claimants were Louis
XIV OF France the Emperor Leopold
l., and the electoral prince OF Bavaria.
| The presence of any one OF them on the
Spanish throne would affect the polItl-
cal equilibrium of Europe. Each held
| his rights through descent from a Span
| lsh infanta.
The astute Louis XIV. tried to cut the
Gordlan knot by hurrying forward his
grandson, Philip of AnJou. In whose fa-
vor he renounced his rights, and TO whom
the dying Carlos had left the kingdom
| by will.
Philip was decidedly the man of the
| hour In Spain. He was the lucky cam
didate who succeeded in wrestling the
| throne from the others, and began his
rule In furry Of reform, industrial, po-
litical and social, which, though his en-
| typical melancholy; apathetic. supersti-
tIon- ridden Spanish monarch. made a
good and lasting impression on national
| institutions.
But, however we'll he might reign. the
powers naturally were not going to sit
by without struggle and watch him,
In l701 he. found himself: with France,
at war with the "Grand Alliance OF The
Hague between England. Austria. Hol-
land and the empire, Portugal later
Joined them. and 1t was only then that
bringing Generals Peterborough. Stan
| hope and Stahrembergh into the country.
The first captured Barcelona, and the
two others defeated Philip V. at Alme-
| nara and Saragossa august 20, 1710),
and occupied Madrid.
Three years later. circumstances. more
| than anything else, even the brilliant
operations of Marlborough and Prince
son for whom the Emperor Leopold had
coveted Spain, by the death of an elder
brother inherited a greater crown. and
the electoral prince of Bavaria died.
OF Philip ", and the peaces OF Utrecht
| in 1T13.' and OF Rastatt and Baden in
| the year following.
By that time-such is the irony of am
bition-Philip " had begun to secretly
banker for the French crown instead OF
his own, and astounded the world by
of Spain. Then with equal suddenness.
but greater meekness. he re-emerged
into power within eight months, Don
Luis having died with the same perver-
|
in living on. Philip was forced hence
| forth to wear the crown he had Tough:
for. with the outward contentment eX-
acted Of kings.
On August 90. 1894, occurred the bat
tie with the Indians at Fallen Timbers
Ohio. Gen. George B. Mcclellan as
suned command of the army OF the Po-
tomac In 1861, and 1t is the date. In 1883,
Of the passage of the bill to prohibit
Chinese immigration for twenty years. 1t
is the birthday of Robert Herrick: the
English poet Q5oD; OF George Villiers,
duke of Buckingham Q5o2): of Francis
Asbury the Methodist bishop G7i6 :,
Samuel l.. Mitchell, "the Nestor OF
| American Science" G76D Valentine
Mott. the American surgeon Q7S5); John
| NJ. Niles, postmastergencral under Van
Buren, G7SO. Benjamin Harrison. the
twenty third president of the United
| States (1S33): and Paul Dana, the jour
nalist GS52). II is the date OF the death
of Edward, Lord Herbert. the philo-
sophical writer (16sD; Sir Charles Sed-
ley. poet and dramatist Q701) and Will
liam Maginn. miscellaneous writer QS42)
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