Brigadier General Arsenio Martínez Campos, who has…

Brigadier General Arsenio Martínez Campos, who has long been working more or less openly for the king, leads some battalions of the central army to Sagunto when Field Marshal Serrano leaves Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War at the end of 1874, rallies to his own flag the troops sent against him, and enters Valencia in the king's name.

Thereupon the President resigns, and his power is transferred to the king's plenipotentiary and adviser, conservative politician Antonio Cánovas del Castillo.

The December 29, 1874, military coup of Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed republic and enables the rise of the young Prince Alfonso.