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 Probert Encyclopaedia: Wars (N-Z)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The Nine Years War (also known as the War of the Grand Alliance), was a conflict fought from 1688 to 1697, resulted from French aggression in the Rhineland, and subsequently became a power struggle between Louis XIV of France and William III of Britain.
The war was fought in the regions of the Caucasus and southern Russia, the Ukraine, the Baltic, northern Russia, and Siberia.
The Second Carlist War was the most significant of the Carlist wars in Spain and occurred in 1873 when the abdication of King Amadeo and the proclamation of a republic afforded an opportunity.
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 Spain Carlist War 1872-1876
July 18, 1909, Varese, Italy] byname DON CARLOS, the fourth Carlist, or Bourbon traditionalist, pretender to the Spanish throne (as Charles VII) whose military incompetence and lack of leadership led to the final decline of the Carlist cause...
Don Carlos was the great-grandson of Charles IV (reigned 1788-1808) and the eldest son of the third Carlist pretender, Don Juan de Borbón, who abdicated on his behalf during the Revolution of 1868, which deposed Isabella II.
Although the Carlists scored some notable successes, their cause was doomed by the accession of Isabella's son Alfonso XII to the throne in 1874.
www.onwar.com /aced/data/sierra/spain1872.htm   (188 words)

  
 Carlist War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Several times during the period from 1833 to 1876 the Carlists -- followers of Don Carlos and his descendants - ralliedto the cry of "God, Country, and King" and fought for the cause of Spanish tradition (Absolutism and Catholicism) against the liberalism, and later the republicanism, of the Spanish governments of the day.
The Carlists were the supporters of Carlos, a pretender to the throneand brother of the deceased Ferdinand VII, who denied the validity a the Pragmatic Sanction that abolished the Salic Law.
TheFirst Carlist War lasted over seven years and the fighting spanned most of the country at one time or another, although the mainconflict centered around the Carlist homelands of the Basque Country and Aragon.
www.therfcc.org /carlist-war-190216.html   (323 words)

  
 Carlism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beside this political evolution, the years before the Carlist wars were marked with a deep economic crisis in Spain, partly spurred by the loss of the American colonies and by the bankruptcy of the state.
The first war was noteworthy for being, in both sides, extremely brutal, up to the point that the international powers forced the warring parties some rules of war handling, namely the "Lord Elliot Agreement".
After the defeat in the war, a group (led by Alejandro Pidal) left Carlism to form a moderate, non-dynastic catholic party in Spain, which latter merged with the conservatives of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo.
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 Encyclopedia: Carlist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Beside this political evolution, the years before the war were marked with a deep economical crisis in Spain, partly spurred by the loss of the American colonies and by the bankruptcy of the state.
The first war was noteworthy for being -in both sides- extremely brutal, up to the point that the international powers forced the warring parties some rules of war handling (the "Lord Elliot Agreement").
During the Second World War, Prince Xavier returned to the Belgian army, where he had served during World War I.He was demobilized and joined the French maquis.
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 Carlist Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Several times during the period from 1833 to 1876 the Carlists -- followers of Carlos and his descendants - rallied to the cry of "God, Country, and King" and fought for the cause of Spanish tradition (Absolutism and Catholicism) against the liberalism, and later the republicanism, of the Spanish governments of the day.
The First Carlist War lasted over seven years and the fighting spanned most of the country at one time or another, although the main conflict centered on the Carlist homelands of the Basque Country and Aragon.
Queen Isabella II was overthrown by a conspiracy of liberal generals in 1868, and left Spain in some disgrace.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carlist_Wars   (309 words)

  
 1840-1875   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Carlist partisans organise sporadic risings in Navarre and Catalonia.
When the bulk of the Spanish army was on an expedition to Morocco, the Carlists attempted a rising in Spain.
The generals replaced her with a Amadeo, the Duke of Aosta (and second son of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy), Then when the Spanish elections of 1872 resulted in a swing away from the Carlists, the Carlist pretender, Carlos VII, decided that only force of arms can win him the throne.
www.balagan.org.uk /war/1833/chronology1840.htm   (1939 words)

  
 World War 1 and 2 - War tax stamp
A war tax stamp is a type of postage stamp added to an envelope in addition to regular postage.
The first war tax stamp was used in 1874 in Spain, during the Third Carlist War.
War tax stamps were used in many countries during World War I, but usage declined after that, and is now rarely seen.
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 Euskal Herria Journal | A Basque Journal | Navarre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Known as the Carlists Wars (1833-1872), these guerrilla wars took the form of a popular uprising in the defence of Basque liberties and laws as opposed to Spanish centralism.
The liberal Basque urbanites saw in the rural Carlists only a symbol of barbarism, the backwardeness and ignorance, the anachronism of the countryside confronting urban civilization, the beret and the abarketa against the frock coat, the stone and the knife against the troops of the line, Euskera against Spanish, illiteracy against the school.
The popular insurrection, however, was used by the Carlist leadership to advanced the political ambitions of Don Carlos, brother of the deceased Spanish king, Fernando VII, allied against the defenders of Isabel II, the unanticipated daughter of the late king and the wife of his old age, Maria Cristina of Naples.
www.ehj-navarre.org /navarre/na_history_assim.html   (1959 words)

  
 civilwars
The war took place between the Liberals, who wanted to abolish the Fueros and continue with the newly unified Spanish state under the rule of Ferdinand VII, and the Conservatives, who wanted regionalism to return and for the Basques to have self-determination.
The First Carlist War was fought from 1833 to 1839 with fronts in Basqueland, Aragon, and Catalonia.
By the end of the Carlist Wars, the Basques were no longer able to control their own political life.
www.mtholyoke.edu /%7Eemcoates/eta/civilwars.html   (522 words)

  
 WHKMLA : Spain : First Carlist War, 1833-1840
Early successes of the Carlists showed, that the government forces were incapable of containing the rebellion; Britain, France and Portugal sent troops to support the government.
Carlist commander Tomas Zumalacarregui fell during the (unsuccessful) siege of Bilbao (1835).
During the war the betrothal of the infant Queen to the son of her uncle Carlos was suggested in order to end the conflict.
www.zum.de /whkmla/military/19cen/carlist1.html   (408 words)

  
 Carlism
Carlism was a conservative political movement in Spain, purporting to establish an alternative branch of the Bourbons in the Spanish throne.
During the reign (1808-1833) of Ferdinand VII of Spain — in the aftermath of the Spanish War of Independence — the political situation oscillated between the supporters of the Ancien régime and the Liberals influenced by the French Revolution of 1789, though many of them had fought the Napoleonic occupation.
The Carlists have traditionally been strong in Navarre (Estella was their capital), Basque Country and Valencia region.
www.faqfolio.com /faqfolio/c/ca/carlism.html   (387 words)

  
 Daily Peloton - Pro Cycling News
War profits accrued from Spain’s neutrality during World War One, lasted until a deep post war economic and social crisis took hold in 1920, undermining the support for the bourgeois wing of the PNV.
The hopes of the Vuelta a España, established in 1935 during the Second Republic’s last full year, to unite Spain’s regions and dissolve political polarisation, as had been the intent of the French Tour, was thus dashed.
Conversely, the outbreak of Civil War itself confirmed Spanish international status as a cycling nation when British Labour organisations co-operated in an international cycle ride from Glasgow to Barcelona during 1936, to raise awareness against the insurgent Fascist threat and funds for the Republican war effort.
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 War tax stamps help finance the war effort
War tax stamps are listed in the Scott stamp catalogs in the back-of-the-book sections after postage due stamps but before Official stamps.
War tax stamps are similar to postal tax stamps, with the exception that the funds they raise are dedicated to defray the cost of a war, while postal taxes usually go to charities or other similar institutions.
The war was a three-way civil war between liberal republicans, supporters of Alfonso XII of the House of Bourbon and supporters of Carlos VII, the Carlist pretender to the throne.
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 Carlists. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
A civil war followed (First Carlist War, 1833–40), and in the hope of autonomy, most of the Basque Provs.
The Carlists’ conservative and clericalist tendencies gave the dynastic conflict a political character, since the upper middle classes profited from the sale of church lands and supported Isabella.
The ensuing chaos and brutal warfare of this Second Carlist War ended in 1876, over a year after Alfonso XII, son of Isabella, was proclaimed king.
www.bartleby.com /65/ca/Carlists.html   (344 words)

  
 Rebellions, Revolutions and Reforms / A Steam-powered Nation. / Permanent Exhibition / The MHC offers - Museu ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The nineteenth century was a period of wars, revolutions and revolts.
The continental wars at the end of the eighteenth century and the French Revolutionary Wars preceded the fall of the Ancien Régime.
War of the Matiners (one of the factions).
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 The Basques in Spain and France - Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The Carlists were the supporters of Don Carlos, a pretender to the throne and brother of the deceased Ferdinand VII.
Several times during the period from 1833 to 1876 the Carlists rallied to the cry of "God, Country, and King" and fought for the cause of Spanish tradition against the liberalism, and later the republicanism, of the Spanish governments of the day.
The war ended in the defeat of the Republicans, which was followed by the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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 WHKMLA : Spain : Carlist War, 1872-1876
A Carlist army was reorganized, which in Feb. 1873 reached the strength of 50,000.
The Carlists failed to take Pamplona by siege (1875) and suffered defeats at Trevino (July 7th 1875) and Mobtejurra (Feb. 17th 1876); the Carlist stronghold of Estella fell Feb. 19th, Don Carlos left Spain.
The Carlist party was capable of raising volunteers, even experienced military officers, but lacked in the equipment and the skills to conduct a modern siege.
www.zum.de /whkmla/military/19cen/carlist18721876.html   (405 words)

  
 Carlist War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Several times during the period from 1833 to 1876 the Carlists - followers of Don Carlos and his descendents - rallied to the cry of "God, Country, and King" and fought for the cause of Spanish tradition against the liberalism, and later the republicanism, of the Spanish governments of the day.
Although the wars were over a 100 years ago, Carlism is still a going concern in Spain today in the form of Comunión Tradicionalista
A quick sketch of the military organisation for both sides in the First Carlist War.
www.balagan.org.uk /war/1833/index.htm   (323 words)

  
 Buber's Basque Page: A Short History of the Basque Country
When the Basques surrendered after the first Carlist War in 1839, they did so on the promise that their Statutes would be respected.
The Basques also lost the second Carlist War and this defeat meant the advent of the Law of Abolition of the Statutes (almost all that still remained of the sovereignty), proclaimed in July 1876.
The Second Assembly was held in Landes, north of Bayonne in 1963.
www.buber.net /Basque/History/shorthist.html   (4281 words)

  
 Sandafayre Stamp Auctions | Stamp Atlas | Spain
The Carlist War continued until 1875, and this was the start of a period of political instability from which Spain suffered for the following 70 years.
Local war tax stamps were issued by the Nationalists and these, though intended to be used in addition to normal postage stamps, were often used on their own.
However, because of the assistance received by the Spanish Fascists during the Civil War from Germany and Italy, the Government of Franco was not accepted by the United Nations and they were unable to attend the UPU Congress at Paris in 1947.
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 The Ongoing Conflict in Spain: Basque Nationalism.
The Fueros were abolished after the second Carlist War of 1873-74, a move that was unpopular with the Basques.
A second amnesty resulted in more key ETA prisoners being released but the organisation held out for the release of all its members.
A propaganda war:- This could have the scope of showing Basques that their lot is better by remaining Spanish, and also isolate the more militant nationalists from the bulk which are wary of the conflict.
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 Two Sicilies Succession Dispute (La Successione alla Dignita di Capo della Casa di Borbone Due Sicilie)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
When Prince Don Carlo of the Two Sicilies, second son of the then head of the Dynasty, the Count of Caserta, wanted to marry the then heiress presumptive to the Spanish Throne in 1900, the situation was slightly different.
Spain had twice been divided over the Carlist wars which had arisen because the conservative Infante Don Carlos, younger brother and (until 1830) heir presumptive of Ferdinand VII considered he was legitimate heir to the throne.
In the second Carlist war of 1872-74, the Carlist forces were led by the Duke of Madrid, grandson of Don Carlos, but his chief of staff was the Count of Caserta.
www.chivalricorders.org /royalty/bourbon/twosicilies/dispute.htm   (1709 words)

  
 Carlists on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
A civil war followed (First Carlist War, 1833-40), and in the hope of autonomy, most of the Basque Provs.
Pressure against the church by the second republic (1931-39) helped revive Carlism, and the Carlists embraced the Nationalist cause in the Spanish civil war (1936-39).
The second battle of Covadonga: the politics of commemoration in modern Spain *.(Critical Essay)
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 2nd Class GB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
At the beginning of the Spanish American War, she was serving in the vicinty of Luzon.
After the war, she was used for auxiliary services (such as an air vessel in the 1920's).
In Cuba, during the Spanish American War, she was present at Cienfuegos, under the command of Lt. Lahera.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Queen Isabell married in 1846; the marriage was followed by a CARLIST RISING, by some sources called the Second Carlist War (-1849), which ignited in Catalonia (although the Basques in Navarra had taken up arms in 1841).
While in most European countries the conflict between traditional monarchies and progressive liberals dominated the domestic policy, erupting in the revolutions of 1848, Spain was caught in a civil war over the question which branch of the ruling family properly could claim the title.
Carlist Wars, from Camelot; Carlists and the Carlist Dynasty, from FOTW (with flag)
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 City Guide for Barcelona in Spain - History Of Barcelona And Catalunya - The Seeds Of Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Her reign was a long record of scandal, political crisis and constitutional compromise, until liberal army generals under the leadership of General Prim eventually effected a coup in 1868, forcing Isabel to abdicate.
A new constitution was declared in 1876, limiting the power of the Crown through the institution of bicameral government, but again progress was halted by the lack of any tradition on which to base the constitutional theory.
As rumblings grew among the workers and political organizations, the army moved decisively, crushing a general strike of 1917 and pulling the Catalan bourgeoisie, which was equally determined not to let the country go down the revolutionary road, behind it.
www.cityguides-worldwide.com /Spain/107164.htm   (584 words)

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