3-053-727 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Civil War in Spain: attack of Civil Guard on the Puerta de Carmona, Seville, 1873. 'The unhappy condition of Spain, with two different civil wars going on at once - that of the Carlists in the northern provinces, that of the Intransigentes, or Communist Red Republicans, in the south and east - has continued to excite general commiseration...In [Seville], which is a town of 120,000 inhabitants, the capital of Andalusia, a junta of nine obscure persons, three of them barbers and their chief an apothecary, held possession during several days, appropriating the taxes and all public property, and levying supplies from the private citizens. Thousands of quiet people fled from Seville in great fear, seeking refuge at Gibraltar or Lisbon, but no personal outrages were committed. The main streets and gates of the city were barricaded, and some resistance was made to the attack, which was at length successfully put in execution by a military force acting for the Moderate Republican Government at Madrid. There were about 200 British subjects residing at Seville, who felt in need of a gun-boat in the Guadalquiver for their protection'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.