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See also:DON See also:CARLOS (See also: He was also present at the See also:battle near Estella on the 27th of See also:June 1874, in which See also:Marshal Concha was killed and the liberals were repulsed with loss . Twice he lost See also:golden opportunities of making a See also:rush for the See also:capital—in 1873, during the Federal Republic, and after Concha's See also:death . From the moment that his See also:cousin Alphonso XII. was proclaimed king at Sagunto, at Valencia, in See also:Madrid, and at Logrofio, by General See also:Campos, Daban, Jovellar, Primo de Rivera, and Laserna, the See also:star of the pretender was on the wane . Only once, a few See also:weeks after the Alphonsist restoration, the See also:army of Don Carlos checked the Liberal forces in Navarre, and surprised and made prisoners See also:half a See also:brigade, with guns and See also:colours, at Lacar, almost under the eyes of the new king and his headquarters . This was the last Carlist success . The See also:tide of war set in favour of Alphonso XII., whose armies swept the Carlist bands out of central Spain and Catalonia in 1875, while Marshal Quesada, in the upper See also:Ebro valley, Navarre, and Ulava, prepared by a See also:series of successful operations the final advance of 18o,000 men, headed by Quesada and the king, which defeated the Carlists at Estella, Pena See also:Plata, and Elgueta, thus forcing Don Carlos with a few thousand faithful Carlists to See also:retreat and surrender to the French frontier authorities in March 1876 . The pretender went to See also:Pau, and there, singularly enough, issued his proclamations bidding temporary adieu to the nation and to his See also:volunteers from the same See also:chateau where Queen Isabella, also a refugee, had issued hers in 1868 . From that date Don Carlos became an exile and a wanderer, travelling much in the Old and New See also:World, and raising some See also:scandal by his mode of See also:life . He fixed his residence for a See also:time in See also:England, then in See also:Paris, from which he was expelled at the See also:request of the Madrid See also:government, and next in See also:Austria, before he took up his See also:abode at Viarreggio in See also:Italy . Like all pretenders, he never gave in, and his pretensions, haughtily reasserted, often troubled the courts and countries whose hospitality he enjoyed . His great disappointment was the coldness towards him of See also:Pope See also:Leo XIII., and the favour shown by that pontiff for Alphonso XII. and his godson, Alphonso XIII . Don Carlos had two splendid chances345 of testing the See also:power of his party in Spain, but failed to profit by them . The first was when he was invited to unfurl his See also:flag on the death of Alphonso XII., when the perplexities and uncertainties of Castilian politics reached a See also:climax during the first year of a See also:long minority under a foreign queen-See also:regent . The second was at the See also:close of the war with the See also:United States and after the loss of the colonies, when the discontent was so widespread that the Carlists were able to assure their prince that many Spaniards looked upon his cause as the one untried See also:solution of the See also:national difficulties . Don Carlos showed his usual lack of decision; he wavered between the See also:advice of those who told him to unfurl his See also:standard with a view to rally all the discontented and disappointed, and of those who recommended him to wait until a great pronunciamiento, chiefly military, should be made in his favour—a See also:day-See also:dream founded upon the coquetting of General Weyler and other See also:officers with the Carlist senators and deputies in Madrid . Afterwards the pretender continued to ask his partisans to go en organizing their forces for See also:action some day, and to push their propaganda and preparations, which was easy enough in view of the See also:indulgence shown them by all the governments of the regency and the open favour exhibited by many of the priesthood, especially in the rural districts, the religious orders, and the See also:Jesuits, swarming all over the See also:kingdom . After the death of his first wife in 1893, Don Carlos married in the following year Princess See also:Marie Bertha of See also:Rohan . He died on the 18th of July Igoe . His son by his first wife, Don Jaime, was educated in See also:Austrian and See also:British military See also:schools before he entered the See also:Russian army, in which he became a See also:colonel of dragoons . |
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