It's very satisfying to see how slowly history is recovering in Spain, recognizing achievements and unjustly forgotten figures. In this case it is a sailing regatta that by popular demand will be called Race Blas de Lezo . Transcending the competition sporting event will also include various events and conferences on the hero figure of Guipuzcoa. Hopefully events like this style from now multiplying in our country so we know who have defended our nation still costing lives.
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2 Responses to "I Lezo Race Bias"
What a country! If this hero had been born in any other country would have a monument and would be remembered in history books and celebrated his achievements forever. As you may not figure in the books of hitoria of Spain. I really feel shame for this country because I do not ever become a nation in a country of envious and unfair. Sorry, but that 's what I really think.
August 7th, 2007 @ 19:39It seems that the naval history of this country is limited to the discovery of America, and last year s. Eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The few authors addressing the issue seriously, as Galdos, Perez Reverte and my favorite, Delgado Banon, not out of the disaster of Trafalgar and St. Vincent ... and the same characters (Churruca, Gravina, Seat ...). Perhaps Bañón Delgado has ido something beyond, but little else ... it seems that our naval history was reduced to disaster and a small country, maintaining a huge overseas empire for centuries against a so bloated payroll of enemies, not a country of losers . It seems that we want to wallow in our own misery .... Why is not someone who based his novels, more or less historical in my countryman D. Blas de Lezo, in Luis de Velasco, in Méndez Núñez or even Sebastian Liniers (although French belonged to the Navy)?
August 26th, 2007 @ 17:12