The Defence Juntas ( es, Juntas de Defensa, links=no) were professional associations of military officers that sprouted in Spain during the last rales of the
Restoration. They were created from 1916 onward by
Army officers based on
Peninsular Spain disgruntled because of the comparatively quicker war-merit-based promotion of the army officers destined in Africa, underpinning the vs polarization within the armed forces. Jointly with the
1917 general strike and the meetings of the so-called Assembly of Parliamentarians in Barcelona, the unrest stirred by the wayward juntas (which refused to disband after an order to do so issued by the government of
García Prieto
García or Garcia may refer to:
People
* García (surname)
* Kings of Pamplona/Navarre
** García Íñiguez of Pamplona, king of Pamplona 851/2–882
** García Sánchez I of Pamplona, king of Pamplona 931–970
** García Sánchez II of Pampl ...
in the Summer of 1917) dealt a triple whammy to the regime during the
Crisis of 1917.
References
1910s in Spain
Spanish Army
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