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Title:
Carlist Infantry & Encampment
Document number:
259
Author:
Major C. V. Z. Attached to the Staff of the Queen's Army
Engraver:
Giles, J. W.
Printer:
Graf, J., [S. L.]
Book/ Album / Dossier:
Civil war in Spain. Characteristic sketches of the different troops, regular and irregular, native and foreign, composing the armies of don Carlos and queen Isabella, also various scenes of military operations, and costumes of the spanish peasantry. London: J. Dicckinson, 1837
Format date:
1837
Topic date:
1835
Physical description:
1 17 x 25 cm engraving on a 28 x 38 cm page; col
Notes:
Description by the author "Carlist infantry, and interior of a carlist intrenchment, with a black flag, which they have the habit of hoisting as a signal of defiance and of granting no quarter. Nº1 is a guerrilla, attached to the army. Nº2 and 3 are regular soldiers of the line, of which there are from 10 to 12 regiments..." See also, "Carlistische infanterie" available in Koldo Mitxelena.
Subjects:
Art and Architecture-Military buildings-Encampments
Art and Architecture-Military buildings-Palisades
Science and Technology-Weapons
History-Wars-1st Carlist War (1833-1840)
Objects-Uniforms
Trades-Soldiers
Signature:
ZM: P,4 - VOL. I - GRABADO Nº 3
Location:
Museo Zumalakarregi Museoa
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