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Conquistadors and Border Disruption

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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The Spanish and the Conquistadors

The Spanish, if you go to Spain, talk to Spaniards or you're there, they're very sensitive about today. But when you look at that fleet that destroyed the Ottoman fleet at La Panto, about 40% of it were Spaniards. They had this idea that they saved Western civilization and the decadent Northern Protestants were using them as the bulwark. It was Don Juan and the conquistadors that were, that made the difference.

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