...Málaga. The Republican leaders have allowed attacks…

...Málaga.

The Republican leaders have allowed attacks on the army that have reduced it to impotence.

To conservatives and men of order, the country seems on the verge of total dissolution; the Carlists are immensely strengthened by the “excesses” of Cantonalists.

Too late, Emilio Castelar y Ripoll, the last president of the republic, tries to recapture the loyalty of the army.

In January 1874, General Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque drives the Republican deputies from the Cortes building in the hope of creating a government of order.

Pavía turns power over to General Francisco Serrano to form a coalition government.