French intervention in Spain (1823)

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

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French military operation
military campaign
military intervention
alsoKnownAs Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis expedition to Spain
surface form: expedition of the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
commander Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême
commandStructure Army of the Eastern Pyrenees
surface form: French army of the Pyrenees
consequence repression of Spanish liberals
strengthening of reactionary forces in Europe
weakening of Spanish constitutionalism
country France
endTime 1823
followedBy Ominous Decade in Spain (Década Ominosa)
hasCause Spanish liberal Trienio Liberal government
decision of the Congress of Verona (1822)
restoration of Ferdinand VII’s absolute monarchy
hasEffectOn Latin American independence movements
surface form: Spanish American wars of independence
historicalRegion Bourbon Restoration
surface form: Bourbon Restoration France

Restoration Spain
ideologicalContext conflict between liberalism and absolutism
legalBasis authorization by the Congress of Verona
location Spain
militaryStrength approximately 100,000 French troops
monarchInvolved Ferdinand VII of Spain
Louis XVIII of France
objective overthrow Spanish liberal constitutional regime
restore absolute power of Ferdinand VII of Spain
opponent Spanish constitutionalists
Spanish liberal forces
opposedBy United Kingdom (diplomatically)
participant Ferdinand VII of Spain
Holy Alliance
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of Spain
Spanish liberal constitutional government
partOf Holy Alliance
surface form: Holy Alliance interventions

post-Napoleonic restoration politics in Europe
precededBy Spanish Revolution of 1820
result defeat of Spanish liberal forces
end of the Trienio Liberal in Spain
occupation of parts of Spain by French troops
restoration of Ferdinand VII’s absolute monarchy
significantEvent Assault on the Trocadero (1823)
surface form: capture of Trocadero (1823)

siege of Cádiz (1823)
startTime 1823
supportedBy Holy Alliance
surface form: Holy Alliance powers (except the United Kingdom)

Louis XVIII of France
timePeriod Trienio Liberal
surface form: Trienio Liberal (1820–1823)

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Second Bourbon Restoration foreignPolicyEvent French intervention in Spain (1823)
Bourbon Restoration notableEvent French intervention in Spain (1823)
this entity surface form: Spanish expedition of 1823
Battle of Trocadero partOf French intervention in Spain (1823)
Restoration France hasEvent French intervention in Spain (1823)
this entity surface form: Spanish Expedition of 1823
Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis expedition to Spain alsoKnownAs French intervention in Spain (1823)
Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême participatedIn French intervention in Spain (1823)