Rafael del Riego y Flórez (7 April 1784 – 7 November 1823) was a Spanish general and liberal politician, who played a key role in the establishment of...

"Himno de Riego" ("Anthem of Riego") is a song dating from the Trienio Liberal (1820–1823) of Spain and named in honour of Colonel Rafael del Riego, a figure...

rejected the liberal constitution of 1812. A revolt in 1820 led by Rafael del Riego forced him to restore the constitution, starting the Liberal Triennium...

pay, bad food and poor quarters, mutinied under the leadership of Rafael del Riego. Pledging fealty to the 1812 Constitution, they seized their commander...

at Cádiz mutinied before they were shipped to the Americas. Led by Rafael del Riego, the conspirators seized their commander and led their army around...

the fall of Rafael del Riego in 1823, Goya felt it necessary to leave the country and move to Bordeaux. The Quinta de Goya, or Quinta del Sordo, in a...

Spain Severo Ochoa, 1959 Nobel Prize winner for physiology or medicine Rafael del Riego, general and liberal politician Carmen Polo, wife of Spanish dictator...

mutinied in Cadiz. This was the same city where a half-century before, Rafael del Riego had launched his coup against Isabella's father, Ferdinand VII. When...

that had fought in the Peruvian War of Independence. The rebellion of Rafael del Riego of 1820 in Spain, made the threat of Spanish invasion of the Río de...

his surrender on 4 August. At Jaén, he defeated the final columns of Rafael Riego, who was captured by the Absolutists on 15 September and hanged in Madrid...