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<p>Between 1869 and 1873, amidst the Ten Years’ War (1868–1878), the Basque provinces sent and maintained two expeditionary forces to keep the island Spanish and to vindicate the legitimacy of their local political institutions through the contribution to the Spanish military effort. Following the toppling of the Bourbons in September 1868 by <i>La Gloriosa</i>, a liberal revolutionary movement, the home rule enjoyed by the Basques came to be regarded by the new regime in power as ancient privileges associated with the Carlists and the moderates. This article explores the political uses of the volunteer force in favour of tradition and privilege in a revolutionary context, and its intertwinement with evolving forms of Spanish nationalism in both the Peninsula and Cuba as examples of the political opportunities unfolded by the island’s first war of independence.</p>

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Basque volunteers for a Spanish Cuba: the ‘tercios de voluntarios vascongados’, 1869–1873

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    2025年6月1日

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  • Fernando Javier Padilla Angulo,
  • José Miguel Abreu Cardet

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Between 1869 and 1873, amidst the Ten Years’ War (1868–1878), the Basque provinces sent and maintained two expeditionary forces to keep the island Spanish and to vindicate the legitimacy of their local political institutions through the contribution to the Spanish military effort. Following the toppling of the Bourbons in September 1868 by La Gloriosa, a liberal revolutionary movement, the home rule enjoyed by the Basques came to be regarded by the new regime in power as ancient privileges associated with the Carlists and the moderates. This article explores the political uses of the volunteer force in favour of tradition and privilege in a revolutionary context, and its intertwinement with evolving forms of Spanish nationalism in both the Peninsula and Cuba as examples of the political opportunities unfolded by the island’s first war of independence.