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
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Portrait by Antonio Gisbert.
Serrano (center) among the members of the Provisional Government in 1869, by J. Laurent.
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The Spanish Republic, historiographically referred to as the First Spanish Republic, was the political regime that existed in Spain from 11 February 1873 to 29 December 1874.
Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre
…marshal and statesman. He was Prime Minister of Spain four times between 1868 and 1874, regent in 1869–71, and the last President of the short-lived First Spanish Republic in 1874. Serrano was born on 17 December 1810 in the Isla de León (current day San Fernando), in the Bay of Cádiz. He was son of Francisco Serrano y…
Allegory of the Spanish Republic, published in a satirical and liberal magazine
Engraving of the proclamation of the republic by Josep Lluís Pellicer, 1873.