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(A) Information on Individual Regiments
(C) Some digitalized documents
Books:
Historia de la Guerra Civil: Y de los partidos liberal y carlista (Vol. 4) by Antonio Pirala
Historia de la Guerra Civil: Y de los partidos liberal y carlista (Vol. 6) by Antonio Pirala
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First Carlist War | |||||||
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Part of the Carlist Wars | |||||||
The Battle of Irún, 17 May 1837. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Supported by: Portugal (until 1834) |
Supported by: France United Kingdom Portugal (from 1834) | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Strength | |||||||
Over 500,000[1] Over 18,000 French, British, Belgian, and Portuguese volunteers[2] | |||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Carlists: 15,000–60,000[citation needed] |
Liberals: 15,000–65,000 French: 7,700 British: 2,500 Portuguese: 50[citation needed] | ||||||
5% of the Spanish population, with half this number being military deaths[3][4] 111,000-306,000 [5] |
The First Carlist War was a civil war in Spain from 1833 to 1840, the first of three Carlist Wars. It was fought between two factions over the succession to the throne and the nature of the Spanish monarchy: the conservative and devolutionist supporters of the late king's brother, Carlos de Borbón (or Carlos V), became known as Carlists (carlistas), while the progressive and centralist supporters of the regent, Maria Christina, acting for Isabella II of Spain, were called Liberals (liberales), cristinos or isabelinos. Aside from being a war of succession about the question who the rightful successor to king Ferdinand VII of Spain was, the Carlists’ goal was the return to a traditional monarchy, while the Liberals sought to defend the constitutional monarchy.
It is the largest and most deadly civil war in nineteenth-century Europe and fought by more men than the Spanish War of Independence.[6] Furthermore, it is considered the "last great European conflict of the pre-industrial age". The conflict was responsible for the deaths of 5% of the 1833 Spanish population—with military casualties alone amounting to half this number.[3][7] It was mostly fought in the Southern Basque Country, Maestrazgo, and Catalonia and characterized by endless raids and reprisals against both armies and civilians.
Importantly, it is also considered a precursor to the idea of the two Spains that would surface during the Spanish Civil War a century later.