biography
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Coloma, Carlos
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popular name of Carlos, Marqués de la Espina, Coloma
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pronunciation:
[koloma]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1573–1637)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Alicante, SE Spain. He continued the Comentarios (1592) of Bernadino de Mendoza in Las guerras de los Estados Baxos desde el año MDLXXXVIII hasta el de MDXCIX (1625). He fought under the Duque de Alba in Portugal in his youth, later serving in Messina and Flanders, so his well-written account is based on personal knowledge. He was made a Knight of Santiago and governor of Perpignan and the Balearics. |
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