Implantación del servicio militar en Navarra: el precio de la derrota

Abstract

The 19th century was the century of transformation and change for Navarre. This was traumatic change for some, necessary change for others, and a change that was consequence of a war, which was to establish a feeling of defeat in nearly everybody. Institutional change eventually affects daily life. This happened in Navarre in 1841 with the so-called Paccionada Law. It is in this atmosphere of pessimism, of a lost war (even for many of the vanquishing liberals) where we have to place the trauma that was one of the novelties of the newly established regime: compulsory military service, the popularly named quintas, yet another proof of how things would never be the same again.