Emilio Castelar
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Emilio Castelar y Ripoll was a Spanish republican politician, and a president of the First Spanish Republic.
Castelar, by Joaquín Sorolla.
Monument to Castelar in Madrid (M. Benlliure, 1908).
An aging Castelar, with some friends in Murcia (including Vicente Medina and José García Vaso).
Funeral ceremony passing by the Puerta del Sol.
Francisco Serrano Domínguez, 1st Duke of la Torre, Grandee of Spain, Count of San Antonio was a Spanish marshal and statesman. He was Prime Minister of Spain four times between 1868 and 1874, regent i
Emilio Castelar
…in the First Uprising of June 1866, which was organized by Marshal Prim, and crushed, after much bloodshed, in the streets by Marshals O'Donnell and Serrano. A court martial condemned him in contumaciam to death by garrote, and he had to hide at a friend's house until he could escape to France. There he…
Portrait by Nadar
Portrait by Antonio Gisbert.
Serrano (center) among the members of the Provisional Government in 1869, by J. Laurent.