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82 PABLO GONZÁLEZ-POLA DE LA GRANJA ABSTRACT The present work pretends to deepen in the figure of the general Leopoldo O´Donnell in the lace that supposes his ascription to a group of generals of high graduation that, used by the political parties, had to assume the presidency of the government in, practically, iodine the period that represents the reign of the queen Elizabeth II. For this is indispensable to begin studying this called “Diet of the generals”. And, even before look for his origins in the intervencionismo political to the that the first borbones carried to the Spanish army. After studying the process by means of which O´Donnell arrived to the highest places of the militia, will see him in the first conspiracies, always at the side of the Throne, his participation in the revolution of 1854, key for his access to the category of espadón and the last chapter devoted to his political project personnel: a political party centrista pure called the Liberal Union. KEY WORDS: Army, intervencionismo, espadones, carlismo, isabelinos, cristinos, pronunciamiento, centrismo and unionismo. * * * * * Revista de Historia Militar, II extraordinario de 2017, pp. 82-122. ISSN: 0482-5748


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