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Attack on General Prim (1814-1870) in calle del Turco (Turk Street) Madrid on 27 December 1870 (1871). Armed men with blunderbusses attacked his carriage as he was on the way to his residence in the Buenavista Palace. He died three days later from the wounds he had sustained. From "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia), Vol II, published in Barcelona, 1871.