Goya; pintura; 3 de mayo; madrileños; franceses; guerra de la independencia; plaza de España; fusilamientos; Museo del Prado; siglo XIX - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 15:39:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Goya; pintura; 3 de mayo; madrileños; franceses; guerra de la independencia; plaza de España; fusilamientos; Museo del Prado; siglo XIX - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 3 May in Madrid or “The firing squads” https://historylab.es/3-may-in-madrid-or-the-firing-squads/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-may-in-madrid-or-the-firing-squads Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-3-de-mayo-en-madrid-o-los-fusilamientos/ The Madrid uprising in the face of the French invasion in the early 19th century

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]]> 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.

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