Cuestionare
1.What do these people have in common: Sir Francis Drake, William
Harper, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Jennings, Woodes Rogers, Charles
Windon, John Hawkins, Robert Blake?
Who were pirates who wanted to have the Canary Islands
2.What happened to Horace Nelson in 1797?
It was in Tenerife, on July 25, 1797. The Royal Navy intended to sink the tooth to
the island but suffered a humiliating defeat. In Nelson's almost immaculate record,
which English historiography has tried to minimize and even cheat of official
documents, sinedo this humiliating defeat his a stain on his file
3. Where does the Canarian word “cambullonero” come from?
Juan Martínez Torvisco (La Laguna de Tenerife) clarifies the true origin or the word
cambullonero (person dedicated to trolling in ports). The DRAE says that it comes
from the Portuguese cambullado, but we are left with two candles. According to Sr.
Juan, the origin of the terminacho is in the port of Tenerife. The English ships that
came there allowed the commercialitation of some products that they bought to
the effect. The expression uses was you can buy on (you can buy on board), outside
the tariff. These buyers werw the “cambulloneros” who then dedicated them
selves to dealing with these bargains. It is a good story.
4.How many British residents lived in Las Palmas in 1910?
Although it has been found in the presence of representatives of the British
countries in all the islands, except when El Hierro, it is confirmed that, due to their
greater financial possibilities, were the islands of "Gran Canaria and Tenerife, in this
order, which They hosted a contingent mayor of resident foreigners »(Hernández
Gutiérrez, 1995: 195). Specifically, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Puerto Orotava
(now Puerto de la Cruz) are the population centers that have the most active
presence of their respective British colonies.
While the number of British subjects residing in Tenerife in 1890 was 71 people, in
that same year the figure rose to 189 in Gran Canaria. The 1910 census indicates