The summer of 1814 in Madrid and Pamplona

Abstract

When Fernando VII come back to Spain at 1814 it was established the most ferocious absolutism and began the repression to the followers of the 1812 Constitution. As a response to this royal action, increased the conspiracy centers, the political meetings and the subversion plans. The encounter in Madrid of the liberals constitutionalist commanders was in favour of a chaine of military “pronunciamientos” (insurrections) as that of the city of Pamplona, under de lidership of marechal Espoz and his nephew Xavier Mina, but it end as a final disaster. Here we present a long list of testimonies about this process so that Xavier Mina’s and other authors writings at the most immediate moment of the facts.