Robert Boyd, an Irishman in search of freedom in Spain
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Boyd, Torrijos, liberalism, freedom, Malaga, Fernando VIIAbstract
The article focuses on the relationship between Robert Boyd and Jose Maria Torrijos, a Spanish liberalist leader who fought against the absolutism of Fernando VII, and the determined support that the Irish gave to the Spanish through Sterling and the “Apostles of Cambridge” with the donation of his own fortune and his own personal commitment. He accompanied the liberals to Gibraltar, from where, after several unsuccessful invasion attempts, they tried to carry out the “Plan Viriato”, a deception concocted by the Malaga’s governor that resolved with the execution of 49 people on the beaches of that city on December 11, 1831 without a prior trial being necessary. It finally gathers the international reactions produced after the executions.
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