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    Corunna 5 Tudela 4 Bailén 3 Valencia 2 Madrid 1    The Dos de Mayo or Second of May Uprising took place in Madrid, Spain, on 2–3 May 1808. The rebellion...
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    Third of May 1808 and is set in the Calle de Alcalá near Puerta del Sol, Madrid, during the Dos de Mayo Uprising. It depicts one of the many people's rebellions...
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    administrative neighborhood of Universidad. Its name remembers the Dos de Mayo Uprising in 1808 that marked the beginning of the Spanish War of Independence...
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    Mancha. Valdepeñas is on the main road from Madrid to Andalusia. The Dos de Mayo Uprising had put Iberia in revolt against French rule. Word spread quickly...
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    an homage to the role of the Madrilenian people during the 1808 Dos de mayo uprising. Originally sculpted in Rome by Aniceto Marinas in 1891, the sculptural...
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    painting, The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya, depicts the summary execution of Spaniards by French forces after the Dos de Mayo Uprising in Madrid....
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    that arrived in early 1808. The situation changed after the Spanish Dos de Mayo Uprising. Junot soon found that all communications with Paris were cut off...
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    historians view them as a visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising, the subsequent cruel war that ended in Spanish victory in the Peninsular...
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    anniversary of the Dos de Mayo uprising. Móstoles is the home of the Community of Madrid's modern art gallery, the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M). It was...
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    1808) was a Spanish artillery officer and one of the leaders of the Dos de Mayo Uprising that signalled the start of the Spanish War of Independence. Daoíz's...
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