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leaves with past
The display of Bolívar’s sword at the inauguration of Gustavo Petro has recalled the symbolic meaning that many of these weapons have reached
John Prim | Militar and political
The saber of a revolutionary broadsword
During the reign of Isabel II of Spain, the word ‘espadón’ began to be used to refer to the soldiers who took political positions and led the characteristic pronouncements of the time. General Juan Prim (1814-1870), one of the architects of La Gloriosa, the revolution of 1868, was one of them. His officer’s saber
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