After the riots that had taken place the previous day between the Madrilenians and the French, Murat wrote to Joseph Bonaparte about the looting and barbarism in the streets of Madrid, showing the army’s need for revenge, and the assailants were arrested and shot. That same night the arrests and executions began to take place without trial. The executions were carried out at four o’clock in the morning in several central points of the capital: Recoletos, Paseo del Prado and Puerta de Alcalá in the southernmost part of the city, while in the west they took place in Príncipe Pío and Moncloa. However, the vast majority of those executed were in Príncipe Pío, in what is now Plaza de España.
Collection: Images
Project: 6. Under a cloak of terror: violence and armed conflict in Europe.
Chronology: XIX
Scope: Secondary education, Baccalaureate, University
Resource type: Image
Format: Oil on canvas (268 x 347 cm)
Source: Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Language: Spanish
Date: 1814
Owner: Álvaro Romero González (Modernalia)
Identifier: P000749
Copyright: Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Abstract: The Madrid uprising in the face of the French invasion in the early 19th century
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