Ángel de Saavedra and the Peninsular War: patriotism and glorification of the liberal system

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Published 04-10-2012
Francisco Miguel Espino Jiménez

Abstract

We analyze the military career of Ángel de Saavedra Ramírez de Baquedano, the third Duke of Rivas since 1834, and their participation in the Peninsular War. In addition to the research of a little-known facet of that historical character, we provide the data needed to understand the initial impression of liberalism on his thinking, considering that his military career just led him to reside in Cadiz during the Spanish Parliament activity, and we characterize their patriotic poems and glorification of the liberal system, first works of whom will eventually become an influential politician and, above all, one of the Spanish writers of major reference.

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Keywords

Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, Peninsular War, liberalism, political and military history, biography

Section
Miscellany