3-065-919 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Civil War in Spain: Battle of Galdames, April 30 - view taken from the Heights of Montellano, 1874. '1. Galdames Mountains; 2. Limestone Cliff; 3. Carlist Intrenchment; 4. Railroad to the Iron-Mines; 5. Mountains of Sopuerta; 6. Galdames Inn; 7. Wood full of Carlists; 8. San Felice Bridge; 9. Village of Mercadillo; 10. Road to Valmaseda; 11. Houses of Mercadillo; A. Carlist Intrenchments; B. Carlists Retreating; C. Left Wing of Concha's Army; D. Saragossa Regiment, making a feigned attack on the Carlists; E. Battery; F. Concha's Troops'...The battle of April 30 - an important action in the late campaign - was begun by Serrano occupying the heights of Montellano and Mercadillo, which overlook the Somorrostro valley...We give a panoramic view from Montellano, the references to which may serve to explain the published accounts of the battle. The Carlist position on the Galdames heights was finally stormed by a night attack, with twelve battalions, under General Palacios, who lost thirty men'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.