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See also:CABRERA, RAMON (1806-1877) , Carlist See also:general, was See also:born at See also:Tortosa, See also:province of See also:Tarragona, See also:Spain, on the 27th of See also:December 18o6. As his See also:family had in their See also:gift two chaplaincies, See also:young Cabrera was sent to the See also:seminary of Tortosa, where he made himself conspicuous as an unruly See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil, ever mixed up in disturbances and careless in his studies. After he had taken See also:minor orders, the See also:bishop refused to ordain him as a See also:priest, telling him that the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church was not his vocation, and that everything in him showed that he ought to be a soldier. Cabrera followed this See also:advice and took See also:part in Carlist conspiracies on the See also:death of See also:Ferdinand VII. The authorities exiled him and he absconded to See also:Morelia to join the forces of the pretender See also:Don See also:Carlos. In a very See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he See also:rose by sheer daring, fanaticism and ferocity to the front See also:rank among the Carlist chiefs who led the bands of Don Carlos in See also:Catalonia, See also:Aragon and See also:Valencia. As a raider he was often successful, and he was many times wounded in the brilliant fights in which he again and again defeated the generals of See also:Queen See also:Isabella. He sullied his victories by acts of See also:cruelty, See also:shooting prisoners of See also:war whose lives he had promised to spare and not respecting the lives and See also:property of non-combatants. The queen's generals seized his See also:mother as a See also:hostage, whereupon Cabrera shot several mayors and See also:officers. General Nogueras unfortunately caused the mother of Cabrera to be shot, and the Carlist See also:leader then started upon a policy of See also:reprisals so merciless that the See also:people nicknamed him " The See also:Tiger of the Maeztrazgo." It will suffice to say that he shot lrto prisoners of war, too officers and many civilians, including the wives of four leading Isabellinos, to avenge his mother. When See also:Marshal See also:Espartero induced the Carlists of the See also:north-western provinces, with Maroto at their See also:head, to submit in accordance with the See also:Convention of Vergara, which secured the recognition of the rank and titles of moo Carlist officers, Cabrera held out in Central Spain for nearly a See also:year. Marshals Espartero and O'Donnell, with the bulk of the Isabellino armies, had to conduct a See also:long and bloody See also:campaign against Cabrera before they succeeded in See also:driving him into See also:French territory in See also:July 184o. The See also:government of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Philippe kept him in a fortress for some months and then allowed him to go to See also:England, where he quarrelled with the pretender, disapproving of his See also:abdication in favour of the See also:count of Montemolin. In 1848 Cabrera reappeared in the mountains of Catalonia at the head of Carlist bands. These were soon dispersed and he again fled to See also:France. After this last effort he did not take a very active part in the propaganda and subsequent risings of the Carlists, who, however, continued to consult him. He took offence when new men, not a few of them quondam See also:regular officers, became the advisers and lieutenants of Don Carlos in the war which lasted more or less from 187o-1876. Indeed, his long See also:residence in England, his See also:marriage with See also:Miss See also:Richards, and his prolonged See also:absence from Spain had much shaken his devotion to his old cause and belief in its success. In See also:March 1875 Cabrera sprang upon Don Carlos a manifesto in which he called upon the adherents of the pretender to follow his own example and submit to the restored See also:monarchy of See also:Alphonso XII., the son of Queen Isabella, who recognized the rank of See also:captain-general and the See also:title of count of Morella conferred on Cabrera by
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the first pretender. Only a very few insignificant Carlists followed Cabrera's example, and Don Carlos issued a See also:proclamation declaring him a traitor and depriving him of all his honours and titles. Cabrera, who was ever afterwards regarded with contempt and execration by the Carlists, died in See also:London on the 24th of May 1877. He did not receive much See also:attention from the See also:majority of his See also:fellow-countrymen, who commonly said that his disloyalty to his old cause had proved more harmful to him than beneficial to the new See also:state of things. A See also:pension which had been granted to his widow was renounced by her in 1899 in aid of the See also:Spanish See also:treasury after the loss of the colonies. (A. E.
End of Article: CABRERA, RAMON (1806-1877)
Additional information and Comments
Ramon Cabrera married an English woman, his widow, who eventually survived him. She lived at Wentworth House, Virginia Water. Nowadays the famouse Golf club. The estate is now under water when the reservoirs in northern Surrey were built. Her lands were adjacent to Conservative MP for Chertsey, Henry Chandler Leigh-Bennett. Their mutual friends included Lawrence James Baker, a former MP and Chairman of London Stock Exchange, jobber to King Edward VII. The Countess probably attended the Devonshire Society Ball of 1897, that set the tone for the modern "Debuatante balls" that ran through the 20th Century. I know little more about the Morella dynasty.
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