She describes here her journey, with a female friend (actually Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
), to Spain with the particular purpose of seeing the works of Velasquez
, and on to North Africa, in the...
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1834-1839: The Carlist Wars were fought in Spain, mounted...
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1834-1839
The Carlist Wars were fought in Spain, mounted by challengers to the reign of the infant Isabella II
. There were renewed outbreaks of these civil wars in the 1840s and the 1870s.
October 1846: Queen Isabella of Spain married her cousin,...
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October 1846
Queen Isabella
of Spain married her cousin, despite machinations by British and French diplomats to arrange a marriage that would be politically opportune for them.
September 1868: Revolution in Spain occurred. Queen Isabella...
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September 1868
Revolution in Spain occurred. Queen Isabella II
was subsequently ousted, and the revolutionary party favoured a constitutional government headed by a new sovereign.
