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The British Auxiliary Legion in the First Carlist War in Spain, 1835-1838
Edward M. Brett
其他書名
A Forgotten Army
出版Four Courts, 2005
主題History / Europe / GeneralHistory / Europe / IrelandHistory / Wars & Conflicts / GeneralHistory / Modern / 19th CenturyHistory / Europe / Spain
ISBN18518291569781851829156
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GmRpAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The two Carlist wars are probably the least remembered, outside Spain, of the civil conflicts of the country. In the first of these, as in 1936, foreign volunteers fought on both sides, among them the 10,000 men of the British Auxiliary Legion, an arm of Palmerston's foreign policy supporting the liberal Cristino cause and the young Queen Isabella II against her uncle, Don Carlos, pretender to the throne. With the Foreign Enlistment Act suspended in 1835, troops were recruited in Britain and Ireland to fight in a savage struggle. Ill-paid, poorly supplied and inadequately accommodated in appaling weather, the Legion suffered heavy mortality from typhus, yet fought bravely in battle, contributing to an eventual Cristino victory. Ireland played a prominent role in the Legion with four designated Irish regiments and many more men serving in other units.