THE TRIUMPH OF REVOLUTION by Ruben Ygua

Author:Ruben Ygua [Ygua, Ruben]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2020-09-07T22:00:00+00:00

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THE TRIUMPH OF REVOLUTION

28- Spain: Spanish Prime Minister Francisco Javier de Istúriz resigns.

General Francisco Serrano had become the lover of Queen Elizabeth II and had influenced her to allow the return of some liberal leaders, who had finally imposed themselves in parliament and had caused the fall of Istúriz, who was succeeded by the Marquis Carlos Martínez de Irujo, also moderate, but who will try to carry out a conciliatory policy with the liberals.

29- Mexico: The rebels chased away by Price in La Cañada had camped at Paso del Embudo, a gorge through which artillery or chariots could not be carried, so Price sent three companies to confront them.

The Battle of the Funnel Pass was a complete success for the Americans. Their casualties were one dead and one wounded, while the rebels counted twenty dead and sixty wounded, and again they had to retreat, this time to Taos.

30-United States: tuberculosis ended the life of Virginia, the wife of Edgar Allan Poe.

FEBRUARY

1st-Mexico: the Americans return to Mora, this time with two hundred men and two howitzers. After a brief confrontation, the rebels fled to the mountains, the Americans burned the city and the surrounding wheat fields in revenge for the death of Captain Hendley.

3-Mexico: Price entered Taos, and found the rebels entrenched in a fortified citadel. He installed artillery and started a siege. On the third day the rebels were cornered in a church. Price blew a hole in the door with a cannonball, brought the cannon closer and fired it loaded with shrapnel through the hole, after which the rebels surrendered. In all, he took about 400 prisoners, but about a thousand had escaped to the mountains.

6- United States: Samuel Walker orders Samuel Colt to manufacture 1,000 revolvers. Colt had long closed his arms factory, but he created a new revolver design in collaboration with Walker and commissioned Eli Whitner Blake, nephew of the inventor of the gin, who had dropped out of law school to collaborate in the factory. of weapons. After the death of his uncle, he associated with his two brothers and, in addition to weapons, manufactured locks, hinges and other mechanisms of his own design that they had patented.

Whitner built the requested 1,000 new Walker colts, and soon had to fulfill a new order for 1,000 more.

Colt will receive $ 10 for each piece sold.

9-Pacific: in two years, the French had overcome all the resistance of the Tahitians and this day Queen Pomare IV agreed to return to Tahiti and rule under the French protectorate.

12-Central America: Juan Lindo is elected president of Honduras.

15- United States: Wilmot's exception was proposed again in Congress and, after a week of intense debate, the result was the same as the previous year: the House of Representatives approved it and the Senate rejected it.

16- Spain: the first outstanding action of the Carlist guerrillas takes place, when a party led by the priest Benet Tristany entered Cervera to get money and ammunition. Some historians take this event as the beginning of the Second Carlist War.

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