Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis expedition to Spain

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

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instanceOf French military campaign
military intervention
royalist intervention
alsoKnownAs French intervention in Spain (1823)
Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
authorizedBy Congress of Verona
Quintuple Alliance powers
battle Battle of Trocadero
siege of Cádiz (1823)
surface form: Siege of Cádiz (1823)
belligerent France
Spanish government
surface form: Spanish constitutional government

Spanish royalists
commander Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême
consequence repression of Spanish liberals
strengthening of reactionary forces in Europe
weakening of Spanish constitutional experiment
country France
endTime 1823
hasCause Congress of Verona
surface form: Congress of Verona (1822) decision

Spanish Revolution of 1820
surface form: Spanish liberal revolution of 1820

restorationist aims of European monarchies
historicalPeriod Bourbon Restoration
surface form: Bourbon Restoration in France

Trienio Liberal
surface form: Trienio Liberal in Spain
ideology absolutism
royalism
legalStatus foreign intervention in civil conflict
location Spain
namedAfter Saint Louis
objective overthrow Spanish liberal constitutional regime
restore absolute monarchy in Spain
opponent Spanish constitutionalists
Spanish liberals
opposedIdeology constitutionalism
liberalism
participant Spanish monarchy
surface form: Bourbon monarchy of Spain

Kingdom of France
Spanish liberal constitutional government
partOf post-Napoleonic Bourbon Restoration policies
result defeat of Spanish liberal forces
end of the Spanish Trienio Liberal
restoration of Ferdinand VII’s absolute rule
startTime 1823
supported Ferdinand VII of Spain
surface form: King Ferdinand VII of Spain
supportedBy Holy Alliance
surface form: Holy Alliance powers
troopStrength approximately 100000 soldiers
typeOfConflict international military intervention

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Bourbon Restoration involvedInEvent Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis expedition to Spain
French intervention in Spain (1823) alsoKnownAs Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis expedition to Spain
this entity surface form: expedition of the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis