Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis expedition to Spain

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The Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis expedition to Spain was a French royalist military intervention in 1823 that restored King Ferdinand VII’s absolute rule by crushing the liberal constitutional government.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French military campaign
military intervention
royalist intervention
alsoKnownAs French intervention in Spain (1823)
Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
authorizedBy Congress of Verona
Quintuple Alliance powers
battle Battle of Trocadero
Siege of Cádiz (1823)
belligerent France
Spanish constitutional government
linked to: Spanish government

Spanish royalists
commander Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême
consequence repression of Spanish liberals
strengthening of reactionary forces in Europe
weakening of Spanish constitutional experiment
country France
endTime 1823
hasCause Congress of Verona (1822) decision
linked to: Congress of Verona

Spanish liberal revolution of 1820
restorationist aims of European monarchies
historicalPeriod Bourbon Restoration in France
linked to: Bourbon Restoration

Trienio Liberal in Spain
linked to: Trienio Liberal
ideology absolutism
royalism
legalStatus foreign intervention in civil conflict
location Spain
namedAfter Saint Louis
objective overthrow Spanish liberal constitutional regime
restore absolute monarchy in Spain
opponent Spanish constitutionalists
Spanish liberals
opposedIdeology constitutionalism
liberalism
participant Bourbon monarchy of Spain
linked to: Spanish monarchy

Kingdom of France
Spanish liberal constitutional government
partOf post-Napoleonic Bourbon Restoration policies
result defeat of Spanish liberal forces
end of the Spanish Trienio Liberal
restoration of Ferdinand VII’s absolute rule
startTime 1823
supported King Ferdinand VII of Spain
supportedBy Holy Alliance powers
linked to: Holy Alliance
troopStrength approximately 100000 soldiers
typeOfConflict international military intervention

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Bourbon Restoration involvedInEvent Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis expedition to Spain
French intervention in Spain (1823) alsoKnownAs expedition of the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
linked to: Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis expedition to Spain