This sample, which will be open to the public until next October 29, is composed of 16 panels to commemorate the 200 years of the hundred thousand sons of San Luis in Chiclana
The Museum of Chiclana hosts the exhibition 'Battle of Sancti Petri Castle. 200 years of the hundred thousand sons of San Luis in Chiclana', which will be open to the public until October 29. This was announced by the municipal delegate of Culture, Susana Rivas, the director of the Museum of Chiclana, Jesus Romero, and people who have made the study for this exhibition, Juan Jesus Saucedo.
During the opening, Susana Rivas said that "this exhibition shows us another historical fact here in Chiclana, as is the other battle, after the liberal triennium. Juan Jesus Saucedo has been working on this exhibition for a long time, work that I appreciate, because it is important to know where we came from to know where we want to go.
In addition, Juan Jesús Saucedo explained that "this is the result of a work done for more than four years, through the archives of Cadiz, Chiclana, the Navy, the Marquis and the general archive of Simancas. I have been away for many years for work, now I am here and I dedicate myself to investigate what our grandparents did, because it is very important to know where I come from to know where I am".
"These events had such a transcendental importance in the history of Spain, that I cannot conceive that they are not known and remain in oblivion, perhaps because we lost, but we defended with great heroism some freedoms and values that are maintained today," said the author, stressing that "without the encouragement and support of various people it would have been impossible. Enriching our heritage with history is what makes us more important as people and as citizens".
Two hundred years after the events, the battle of 1823 is remembered.
More specifically, an event that took place within that warlike encounter that put an end to the Liberal Triennium. Behind this exhibition, is the long and rigorous work of historical researcher Juan Jesus Saucedo Vela, Chiclana also professionally approaches a world that knows closely and in depth.
This exhibition is a journey through an exciting period of history at the same time ignored or silenced. A fast-paced journey through time where you will learn what happened in the country after the War of Independence and until the sadly known as the Ominous or terrible Decade. A country that is capable of changing its regime in just two months without any deaths or civil war. But the ambition of a sector of the population with King Ferdinand VII at the head, will make things change.
In the service of this ambition, a French mercenary army invades Spain on April 7, 1823, but before the Spanish government will undertake the flight with the king as hostage to Seville and later to Cadiz, repeating in Chiclana the situation experienced in 1810, the occupation by a foreign army and ending with the defeat in Sancti Petri of what Juan Jesus Saucedo considers the last bastion of Spanish liberalism.
This event, widely collected and exposed in a pioneering book that will soon see the light and of this exhibition, is presented, for a better understanding of its causes and scope, widely contextualized.
The siege of the city of Cadiz and the Island of Leon will give rise to several battles, such as those of the Bateria Colorada in the Pinar de los Franceses and in the Fortín de la Ermita de Santa Ana on July 16, 1823. It will be followed by the assault on the Trocadero in Puerto Real on August 31 and finally, before the bombardment of Cadiz, the Battle of Sancti Petri Castle from September 13 to 20 where 120 men with hardly any military training faced and heroically resisted for a week the most powerful army of their time defending the Constitution of 1812.
Todo ello se ofrece en una muestra de dieciséis paneles en los que no sólo los textos informan, pues van acompañados éstos de una gran cantidad de imágenes que no sólo los ilustran, sino que aportan también una información complementaria nada desdeñable.
Se cumplen de este hecho histórico 200 años. Recordar la historia de la ciudad es enriquecer, sin duda alguna, el patrimonio. Chiclana sigue, otro paso más, recuperando su Historia.
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