3-065-992 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Civil War in Spain: arrival of the Catalan Division at Vittoria, 1874. 'The war in the northern provinces of Spain between the opposing armies of Don Carlos and the Provisional Republican Government of Madrid seems by no means concluded...One of the sketches we have received from a correspondent following the campaign shows the arrival of the Catalan division at the town of Vittoria, which is a place known, by fame, to all the Duke of Wellington's countrymen. It is a pleasant and prosperous town, the capital of the province of Alava, with 20,000 inhabitants in ordinary times, and with its share of trade; but great losses have been inflicted upon it by this unhappy war. A substantial temporary fortification has been constructed here, by surrounding the town with a new wall, built of stone and faced with gabions or earth-bags; the principal streets and squares of the town are likewise barricaded, with other preparations against a possible Carlist attack. It was on the 19th June that Marshal Concha arrived at Vittoria from Bilbao, the scene of his and Marshal Serrano's late victorious operations; he has since moved eastward into Navarre'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.