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139: 247: 215: 203: 235: 192: 350: 25: 399:, which controlled access to the city. On 31 August 1823 they launched a surprise bayonet attack from the sea side, taking advantage of the low tide, and took the fort. After this action, French infantry captured the Trocadero village by a flank attack. After this last action, 1700 Spanish soldiers were captured by the French. 402:
Cádiz itself held out for three weeks despite bombardments, but was forced to surrender on 23 September 1823 and King Ferdinand was released and handed over to the French. Despite a prior promise of amnesty, the king ordered reprisals against the rebels; in the following years, an estimated 30,000
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devoted several paragraphs to the battle (Volume II, Book 2, chapter 3), in which he called the battle "a fine military action", but also said that "he war of 1823 was an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, (..) at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution."
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French nocturnal decisive assault on Fort Trocadero, on the night of 30 and the day of 31 August 1823 (by P. Delaroche, Chateau de Versailles)
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and authorized France to intervene in the conflict and restore the rule of Ferdinand, with only Britain abstaining from that decision.
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The French moved south to deal with the rebels at Cádiz, and besieged the fort of
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The Battle of Trocadero was one of the events that prompted U.S. President
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Morison, S. E. (1924). "The Origin of the Monroe Doctrine, 1775-1823".
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and conservative Spaniards. The duke dispatched a force to besiege
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The fall of Trocadero was commemorated in Paris, with the
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