CARTAGENA CANTONAL REVOLUTION
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 11:03 am
The Canton of Cartagena was a period of's history when it was governed by a radical cantonalist junta for six months between 1873 and 1874. The city rose up in armed insurrectión on July 12, 1873 establishing the Canton's de facto independence from the First Spanish Republic and beginning a wave of cantonal rebellions across southern Spain. Loosely inspired by the more well-known Paris Commune two years earlier, the Canton of Cartagena existed during a turbulent revolutionary period of Spanish history know as the Sexenio Democratico.
The stamp is based on an illustration (Landing crews of revolted Spanish ships at Fort Navidad , Carthagena) from the magazine The Illustrated London News, 30 August 1873.
Description of the scene taken literally from the magazine.
We give an Illustration of the scene at Carthagena when the crews of the Almanza and Vittoria were put ashore.Fort Navidad, presenting a semicircular front to the sea,pierced for eight guns,but apparently mounted with no more then three , in conspicuous in the midle of this view.Fort Galeras is on the summit of the lofty hill above.To he left is the steam-boat Delphin,which has towed the Spanish war-ships´boats into the port ,and is casting them off to row ashore.On the right hand,at the entrance to the inner harbour,docks,and arsenal,lies the Mendez Nunez,with the little gun-boat Torch close to her outer side. The Mendez Nunez is a powerful ironclad frigate,of 3500 tons burden and 500-horse power engines,with a central battery of six 9-ton guns; while the Torch has but a single gun to keep her in due respect.
Spain 2025,1,85€.
s://www.correos.es/es/es/particulares/filat ... /cartagena
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonal_Rebellion
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... hagena.jpg
For the frigate Mendez Nunez also see
viewtopic.php?t=16038
For the Torch also see
viewtopic.php?t=18803
For the Delphin also see
viewtopic.php?t=18804
The stamp is based on an illustration (Landing crews of revolted Spanish ships at Fort Navidad , Carthagena) from the magazine The Illustrated London News, 30 August 1873.
Description of the scene taken literally from the magazine.
We give an Illustration of the scene at Carthagena when the crews of the Almanza and Vittoria were put ashore.Fort Navidad, presenting a semicircular front to the sea,pierced for eight guns,but apparently mounted with no more then three , in conspicuous in the midle of this view.Fort Galeras is on the summit of the lofty hill above.To he left is the steam-boat Delphin,which has towed the Spanish war-ships´boats into the port ,and is casting them off to row ashore.On the right hand,at the entrance to the inner harbour,docks,and arsenal,lies the Mendez Nunez,with the little gun-boat Torch close to her outer side. The Mendez Nunez is a powerful ironclad frigate,of 3500 tons burden and 500-horse power engines,with a central battery of six 9-ton guns; while the Torch has but a single gun to keep her in due respect.
Spain 2025,1,85€.
s://www.correos.es/es/es/particulares/filat ... /cartagena
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonal_Rebellion
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... hagena.jpg
For the frigate Mendez Nunez also see
viewtopic.php?t=16038
For the Torch also see
viewtopic.php?t=18803
For the Delphin also see
viewtopic.php?t=18804