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- Revolt in Spain
- Diplomatic Machinations
- The Sons of Saint Louis
- The War
In January 1820, a liberal revolt led by Spanish troops under General Rafael del Riego compelled absolutist King Ferdinand VII to implement the Spanish constitution of 1812. That constitution – full of goodies like universal suffrage (at least for men) and freedom of the press – had been drafted by the Spanish national assembly (the Cortes) when th...
The issue was taken up at the Congress of Verona in late 1822. The Holy Alliance (Russia, Prussia and Austria) was concerned about the threat posed by revolutionary movements such as that in Spain, and Russian Tsar Alexander I was keen to intervene. The British – represented at the Congress by the Duke of Wellington – were opposed to intervention. ...
The 100,000 sons of Saint Louis – otherwise known as the Army of the Pyrenees, mobilized for the invasion – actually numbered around 60,000. The problem of ensuring soldiers’ loyalty without compromising their efficiency was dealt with by giving primary commands to former Napoleonic generals (who had the necessary experience) and secondary commands...
The next day, the French army entered Spain. They met little resistance. As an Irish visitor to the country reported: The French soon controlled Navarre, the Asturias and Galicia. Andalusia, the site of Cádiz (the constitutionalists’ provisional capital, to which they had carried Ferdinand), took longer to subdue. On August 31, in the only signific...
The ultras broadened their support, and put a stop to growing military dissent in 1823, when intervention in Spain, in favour of Spanish Bourbon King Ferdinand VII, and against the Liberal Spanish Government, fomented popular patriotic fervour. Despite British backing for the military action, the intervention was widely seen as an attempt to ...
In the spring of 1823, the restored Bourbon French King Louis XVIII of France invaded Spain, "invoking the God of St. Louis, for the sake of preserving the throne of Spain to a fellow descendant of Henry IV of France, and of reconciling that fine kingdom with Europe."
Jun 11, 2021 · The year 1823 was a glorious moment for the duc d’Angoulême , who was otherwise overshadowed by his wife and father. Louis-Antoine had left for Spain in March and returned the following December as a celebrated war hero, having had restored King Ferdinand VII to the Spanish throne.
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Ferdinand VII died on September 29, 1833, in Madrid. His remains are buried in the Pantheon of Kings in the Royal Crypt of the Monastery of El Escorial. María Antonia of The Two Sicilies, Princess of Asturias, Infanta of Spain. Unofficial Royalty: Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Princess of Asturias, Infanta of Spain; María Antonia was ...
