MARTYRS OF CARRAL: Liberator of Galicia

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Why Miguel Solís is known as Liberator of Galicia after Galician Liberal Revolution of 1846. Let’s learn it.

CONTEXT & BACKGROUND

    • REGENCY OF MARÍA CRISTINA
      • Carlist War I [Guerra Carlista I]
      • Political Instability: Multiple Governments
      • Constitution of 1837
      • Revolutions during the Regency of María Cristina
    • REGENCY OF GENERAL ESPARTERO
      • Revolutions during the Regency of Espartero
    • REIGN OF ELIZABETH II
      • Moderate Decade
      • Revolutionary Boards in Galicia
      • Revolutions during the Reign of Elizabeth II
      • Constitution of 1845

GALICIAN LIBERAL REVOLUTION OF 1846

GALICIAN LIBERAL REVOLUTION OF 1846 (Full post)

MARTYRS OF CARRAL: Liberator of Galicia

Miguel Solís Cuetos, was born in San Fernando, Cádiz, on March 27, 1816. He was educated in a school run by the priest Feliú, a man with liberal ideas, which led to the closure of the school by order of the absolutist government of Fernando VII.

In 1829 he entered the navy occupying a guard position in the Royal Navy, after brilliantly passing all the entrance exams, remaining in it until 1836. He participated in the Carlist wars in Aragon, where he reached the rank of captain and lieutenant colonel, for his performance in Molina de Aragón in 1840. He also participated in the esparterist uprisings of 1840 and 1842.

In 1842 he entered the body of the General Staff being assigned to San Sebastian. In 1845 he was assigned to A Coruña as the first commander and accessing the General Staff of the General Captaincy of Galicia. On April 2, 1846 he led the progressive uprising in the San Fernando barracks (Lugo), under the command of the Second Regiment of Zamora, during those days he would be known as “The liberator of Galicia“. On April 23, in the battle of Cacheiras he is defeated. Judged in Carral, he was shot with eleven of his officers. On April 27, the uprising ended.

Ten years after the events, the newspaper “La Oliva”, a newspaper on politics, literature and material interests as they defined themselves, made at least two publications at the “carral victims“, one of them on April 26, 1856.

In the article in “La Oliva” (14) those shot in Carral and Betanzos are remembered as those who were considered at that time heroes and worthy of the country:

Yesterday’s crime is heroic action today: the criminals of that dayday are now worthy of the country.

Aurelio Agoikre Galarraga dedicated a deep poem to them in the same dedication of 1856. (14).

In another post of “La Oliva”, it is recorded how the provincial government flew at half-staff as a sign of mourning (15).

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