Fermín Galán Rodríguez was a Spanish soldier known for leading the failed Jaca uprising a few months before the foundation of the Second Spanish Republic. He was of peasant origins, although his father was in the Navy. His father died when he was 10, and soon after he was enrolled in a boarding school for military orphans. This prepared him for military academy, and in 1918 he graduated as a lieutenant. He served in Morocco, where he learned Arabic, gained a reputation as an African expert and was promoted to Captain.
Miguel Primo de Rivera. Galán wanted to overthrow his dictatorship.
Montjuïc Castle, Barcelona. Galán was imprisoned here for 31⁄2 years.
Santiago Casares Quiroga did not tell Galán in time of the delay in the coup date.
The Jaca uprising was a military revolt on 12–13 December 1930 in Jaca, Huesca, Spain, with the purpose of overthrowing the monarchy of Spain.
The revolt was launched prematurely, was poorly organized and was quickly suppressed. Its leaders were executed or imprisoned.
However, the revolt sparked political upheavals that led to declaration of the Second Spanish Republic a few months later.
Government troops advance towards Jaca
General Queipo de Llano rebelled on 15 December, then fled to Portugal
Dámaso Berenguer resigned two months after the revolt.