1981 Spanish coup attempt
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A coup d'état was attempted in Spain in February 1981 by right-wing, Francoist elements of the Civil Guard and the Spanish military. The failure of the coup marked the last serious attempt to revert S
Antonio Tejero bursting into the Plenary Chamber of the Congress of Deputies, gun in hand
The Congress of Deputies Plenary Hall (pictured in 2014).
Adolfo Suárez (right) and Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado (center) in their seats in Congress (pictured in 1979), talking with Marcelino Oreja (left).
Bullet holes left on the ceiling (pictured in 2015).
Jaime Milans del Bosch
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Jaime Milans del Bosch y Ussía was a lieutenant general in the Spanish Army who was dismissed and imprisoned in 1981 for his role in the failed coup d'état of 23 February 1981.
1981 Spanish coup attempt
…the coup, and the hostage-takers surrendered the next morning and all deputies were freed. A simultaneous coup attempt, executed by Captain General Jaime Milans del Bosch in Valencia, also failed. Tejero, Milans del Bosch and a third conspirator, General Alfonso Armada, were sentenced to thirty years in prison. In 1988…
Milans del Bosch c. 1981