Hispanism theater in the Netherlands and the Generation of '98, as well as the Sephardic refugee writers in the Netherlands. Cees Nooteboom has written books about travel to Spain, including "Roads to Santiago". produced a Dutch translation of "Don Quixote" in 1994, and Hispanism continues to be promoted by Dutch writers such as Rik Zaal ("Alles over Spanje"), Gerrit Jan Zwier, Arjen Duinker, Jean Pierre Rawie, Els Pelgrom ("The Acorn Eaters"), Chris van der Heijden ("The Splendour of Spain from Cervantes to Velázquez"), "Albert Helman", Maarten Steenmeijer, and Jean Arnoldus Schalekamp ("This is Majorca: The Balearic Islands : Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera").
Battle of Minorca (1756) repair and undermanned. When Byng and his fleet, now numbering 13 ships of the line (having been reinforced by ships of the Minorca squadron that had escaped the island), arrived off Minorca on 19 May, they found the island already overrun by French troops, with only the garrison of St. Philip's Castle in (Port Mahon) holding out. Byng's orders were to relieve the garrison, but a French squadron of 12 ships of the line and 5 frigates intervened as the afternoon was wearing on. The two fleets positioned themselves, and battle was drawn up on the morning of the following