1697/08/10: During the two sieges of Barcelona, made by M. Vendome in 1697, and M. de Barwick in 1713, the first of those Generals attacked, sword in hand, the convent of capuchins situated without the town, with several detachments of foot, and made himself mas...
1936/03/09: The hotheaded, toothbrush-mustached Spanish Catalan, Luis Companys, became a rebel when he added to the chaos of Spain's October 1934 revolution by declaring his native province, rich, industrial Catalonia, an independent republic. He became a martyr...
1972/09/12: Nearly 1,000 persons demonstrated briefly in the center of [Barcelona today] to protest the arrest of 67 opponents of the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, police sources said. It was the second such demonstration in two days.
The demonstr...
1809/04/01: Arrest of the persons in office at Barcelona for refusing the oath.
St. Cyr himself remained some three weeks in Barcelona. From the depôts of the Spaniards, which in the course of this successful campaign had fallen into his hands, he had supplie...
1926/11/15: Plot, pounce
The vivid staccato name of Garibaldi is synonymous with revolution and romance.* Last week it seemed that a new Garibaldi, a grandson of the Liberator, had arisen to wade in glory. He is Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi, Italian World War ...
