Dos de Mayo: an Uprising Fought by Ordinary Madrileños
Not rolling over without a protest On May 2 1808 the last remaining members of Spain’s royal family were getting ready to be shipped off to France. Fearing perhaps that if they didn’t keep on Napoleon’s good side they’d wind up (just as their French cousins had) with their severed heads rolling around an executioner’s …
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