Mahón, May 29, 2024 The multifunctional room of the Menorca Military Consortium will host next Friday, May 31, the conference “Menorca in the Moroccan Wars (1859-1927)”, by the historian, professor and Doctor in History from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB ), Miguel Ángel Casasnovas. The presentation will address key aspects of this period,. . .
Athletes who wish to participate in the seventeenth edition of the Fortaleza de La Mola race, which will be held next Sunday, May 7, starting at 10:30 a.m., can now formalize their registration online, through the website www.elitechip.net, or at the place of departure up to half an hour before the start of the test.. . .
This Saturday the first edition of The Meadower- Menorca 2023 was held, with the Isabel II de La Mola Fortress, in Maó, as its nerve center. More than half a thousand participants took part in the test, the first obstacle course to be held on the Island, and which consisted of three different distances and. . .
The Military Consortium of Menorca has published the second publication of the surgeon and lover of history, Alejandro Fernández. It is a novel that recounts the purchase, transport and sale of human beings from West Africa to the Spanish Caribbean during the years after the Treaty of Amiens, once Menorca was incorporated, after British rule,. . .
Last Friday, February 17, at the Isabel II Palace and chaired by the General Commander of the Balearic Islands, Fernando Luis Gracia Herréiz, the accreditation of the appointment of Mr. Jordi Moya Riera as ambassador of the “Army Brand” took place. ”. During the event, which was attended by relatives and friends of the new. . .
The Medieval fortification, based on high but narrow walls, was useful to prevent the assault of the infantry, but with the arrival of gunpowder and subsequent development of the artillery, such walls could not resist the continuous impact of the projectiles; as a consequence, the walls decreased in height and increased their width. In the. . .
In the year 1779, under Carlos III, hostilities would begin between Spain (allied with France) and Great Britain, in relation to the independence of their American colonies (the future United States), supported by the Bourbon monarchies. Immediately the Spanish government. Chaired de facto although not de jure (the figure of Prime Minister did not yet. . .
Since the capture of Menorca by the Duke of Crillón, the presence of Swiss infantry regiments garrisoned Menorca was common. The Helvetian regiments had been contracted by the Spanish Bourbon monarchy since 1742 and, according to their regulations, they had to renew their contract every 20 years. These units adopted the canton from which they. . .
The General Commander of the Balearic Islands, Fernando Luis Gracia Herréiz, highlighted this Friday the work carried out by the Menorca Military Consortium and invited “more than ever” to join efforts and wills for the “ambitious project for the comprehensive rehabilitation of the Sant Felip environment”. . Gracia Herréiz spoke these words during her speech. . .
On November 21, Diario Menorca published an article in its section “Mira Menorca” with the title How to defend Menorca in 1852? Its author, Jesús García Marín, assures that it is a study or report on “the means that should be used for the defense of Menorca”. The authors of said 16-page manuscript, which is. . .
