Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis

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The Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis were a French royalist army sent in 1823 to restore King Ferdinand VII’s absolute rule in Spain and suppress the liberal constitutional government.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French army
military expedition
aimedAt ending the Spanish Constitution of 1812
alsoKnownAs Cien Mil Hijos de San Luis
Hundred Thousand Sons of St. Louis
conflict Spanish Civil War of 1820–1823
Trienio Liberal
country France
endTime 1823
hasCommander Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême
hasPart French royalist troops
historicalSignificance marked the end of the Trienio Liberal in Spain
ideology royalism
legitimizedBy Congress of Verona
location Spain
namedAfter Saint Louis
objective restoration of Ferdinand VII as absolute monarch of Spain
suppression of the Spanish liberal constitutional government
opposed Spanish constitutional regime
opposedTo Spanish constitutionalists
Spanish liberals
participant King Ferdinand VII of Spain
King Louis XVIII of France
partOf French intervention in Spain (1823)
politicalContext Restoration Europe
result restoration of absolutist rule in Spain
startTime 1823
strengthEstimate approximately 100000 soldiers
supported Spanish absolutists
supportedBy Holy Alliance
timePeriod post-Napoleonic era
typeOfIntervention foreign military intervention

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French intervention in Spain (1823) alsoKnownAs Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
Trienio Liberal endedBy Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis expedition to Spain alsoKnownAs Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis alsoKnownAs Hundred Thousand Sons of St. Louis
linked to: Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis