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The Insurrection in Madrid - Conflict in the Plaza Mayor, 1854. Scene from the Spanish Revolution. '...one of the early scenes of the Insurrection - the conflict in the Plaza Mayor, on the afternoon of the 18th July, when a little column, composed of two or three companies of infantry, two guns, and a picquet of cavalry of the Civic Guard, proceeded to the Plaza Mayor, and drove the insurgents out of a house, of which they had taken possession. The artillery, however, was employed, it appears, chiefly in the Calle Atocha, and did much damage to the buildings. Few of the insurgents were killed, but a good many wounded, and the troops also suffered considerably. The number of wounded in the military hospital...was 800; the number killed was not known, but it was said to be not less than 400'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.