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tenerife, canary islands
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Tenerife was the last island of Canaries to be conquered and the one that took the longest time to submit to the Castilian troops.
Although the traditional dates of conquest of Tenerife are established between 1494 (landing of Alonso Fernández de Lugo) and 1496
(conquest of the island), it must be taken into account that the attempts to annex the island of Tenerife to the Crown of Castile
date back at least to 1464. For this reason, from the first attempt to conquer the island in 1464, until it is finally
conquered in 1496, 32 years pass.
In 1464, Diego Garcia de Herrera, Lord of the Canary Islands, took symbolic possession of the island in the Barranco del Bufadero
(Ravine of the Bufadero), signing a peace treaty with the Guanche chiefs which allowed the mencey Anaga to build a fortified tower
on Guanche land, where the Guanches and the Spanish held periodic treaty talks until the Guanches demolished it around 1472.
In 1492 the governor of Gran Canaria Francisco Maldonado organized a raid that ended in disaster for the Spaniards when they were
defeated by Anaga's warriors. In December 1493, the Catholic monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon,
granted Alonso Fernández de Lugo the right to conquer Tenerife. Coming from Gran Canaria in April 1494, the conqueror landed on the
coast of present-day Santa Cruz de Tenerife in May, and disembarked with about 2,000 men on foot and 200 on horseback. After taking
the fort, the army prepared to move inland, later capturing the native kings of Tenerife and presenting them to Isabella and Ferdinand.
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