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PAVIA Y ALBUQUERQUE, MANUEL (1828-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 971 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAVIA Y See also:ALBUQUERQUE, See also:MANUEL (1828-1895) , See also:Spanish See also:general, was See also:born at See also:Cadiz on the 2nd of See also:August 1828. He was the son of See also:Admiral Pavia, a See also:naval officer of some See also:note in the See also:early See also:part of the 19th See also:century. He entered the Royal See also:Artillery See also:College at See also:Segovia in 1841; became a See also:lieutenant in 1846, a See also:captain in 1855 and See also:major in 1862. Three years later he joined the See also:staff of See also:Marshal See also:Prim, and took part in the two unsuccessful revolutionary movements concerted by Prim in 1866, and, after two years of See also:exile, in the successful revolution of 1868. Pavia showed much vigour against the republican risings in the See also:southern provinces; the governments of See also:King Amadeus of See also:Savoy, from 1871 to 1873, also showed him much favour. After the See also:abdication of that See also:prince, General Pavia put down the Carlists and the cantonal insurrections of the See also:chief towns of the See also:south. On three occasions during the eventful See also:year 1873, as captain-general of See also:Madrid, he offered his services to put an end to the anarchy that was raging in the provinces and to the disorganization prevalent in the See also:Cortes. To all he used the same arguments, namely, that they had to choose between an Alphonsist restoration or a dictatorial, military and See also:political See also:republic, which would rally See also:round its See also:standard all the most conservative See also:groups that had made the revolution of 1868. This he hoped to realize with Castelar, but the See also:plan was interrupted by the military pronunciamiento for the purpose of dissolving the Cortes of 1873. As soon as the federal Cortes had defeated Castelar, Pavia made his coup d'etat of the 3rd of See also:January 1874, and after the pronunciamiento was See also:absolute See also:master of the situation, but having no See also:personal ambition, he sent for Marshal Serrano to See also:form a See also:government with See also:Sagasta, See also:Martos, Ulloa and other Conservatives and Radicals of the revolution. Pavia sat in the Cortes of the Restoration several times, and once defended himself skilfully against Emilio Castelar, who upbraided him for the part he had played on the 3rd of January 1874. He died suddenly on the 4th of January 1895.

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