Next Thursday, October 30, Francisco Javier Salmerón Giménez will present his new book, published by the Alfonso X the Wise Academy, in an event organized by our Fray Pasqual Salmerón Center for Historical Studies, which will take place in the Padre Salmerón Library at 7:30 p.m.
It will be presented by Antonio Francisco Gómez Gómez, who is also a member of our board of directors.
Francisco J. Salmerón has been interested in understanding the true meaning and the reasons behind the violence unleashed during three wars that have marked our recent history. Civil wars that combined the learning of politics with the learning of war, amidst voices that sounded as if time stood still, with continuous leaps backward that reflected the long shadow that the counter-revolution cast over the origins of contemporary Spanish history.
In Murcia, a clear liberal stronghold, the Carlists kept the local authorities and troops in a constant state of alert. The most tense situation arose with the occupation of Orihuela by the Carlist leader Domingo Forcadell in March 1837, after he led his troops through Yecla and Abanilla.
Miguel Lozano, an officer from Jumilla, would be the protagonist of the largest foreign attack on the territory when, to relieve the growing pressure of the government army on the Carlists, he managed to disrupt the peace of the city and obtain substantial funds, occupying cities such as Lorca and Orihuela and threatening the city of Murcia itself, even reaching as far as Cieza.
The cover was created by another member of our association, Mariano Rojas Marín, based on a French engraving depicting a Carlist attack on the Los Ramos station.
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