First Carlist War: Difference between revisions

Spain had been heavily looted during the Napoleonic Wars and had only managed to fight as a junior partner under British leadership, financed and even clothed by British subsidies.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Laspra |first=Alicia |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232536999 |title=La ayuda britanica |date=2007 |publisher=Nabla Ediciones |isbn=978-84-935926-2-2 |editor-last=Moliner i Prada |editor-first=Antoni |edition=1 |series=La Guerra de la Independencia en España (1808-1814) |location=Alella [Spain] |oclc=232536999}}</ref> Nonetheless, the Spanish government would be overburdened with costs needed to establish control over the country over the following decades—88% of taxes collected in February 1822 went to fund the military—which increased when Ferdinand maintained a French garrison between 1824-1828 "as a [[Varangian Guard]]" to ensure his power.{{sfn|Lawrence|2014|p=35}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Christiansen |first=Eric |title=The Origins of Military Power in Spain, 1800-1854 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1967 |pages=23–28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Martin-Portugues |first=Lara |title=Jaen (1820-1823) |pages=316}}</ref> In 1833, Spain's forces comprised 100,000 Royalist Volunteers, 50,000 regulars, and 652 generals.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Marichal |title=Spain (1834-1844) |pages=48}}</ref>

 

[[File:El_náufrago,_de_Asensio_Julià.jpg|left|thumb|The castaway, also known as the smuggler, painted by Asensio Julià in 1815.]]

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