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100	1		_aAlcalá Galiano, Antonio, _d1789-1865
245	1	0	_aRecuerdos de un anciano
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-01-16
508			_aRamón Pajares Box. (This book was produced from images generously made available by Junta de Andalucía / Biblioteca Digital de Andalucía, Spain.)
520			_a"Recuerdos de un anciano" by Antonio Alcalá Galiano is a historical memoir written in the mid-19th century. It offers firsthand recollections of early 19th‑century Spain—its society, politics, and wars—with special focus on Cádiz, the Battle of Trafalgar, and Madrid under Carlos IV. The narrator blends vivid city portraits and political insight with personal experience and loss. The opening of the memoir begins with an editor’s note explaining that these articles were first printed in the magazine La América and are now collected to preserve an eyewitness record of Spain’s turbulent first third of the century, with the promise of fuller posthumous memoirs. It then paints Cádiz at the century’s start: newly prosperous after the Peace of Amiens, immaculate and lively, elegant in dress and manners yet thin in intellectual life; a feeble local press is offset by a youthful literary academy (1805–1808) that includes José Joaquín de Mora. The author sketches local politics and two contrasting governors—Morla, stern and capricious but efficient in epidemics, and Solano, gallant, theatrical, fond of public festivities and civic improvements—before noting Cádiz’s later decline after the Independence War and the loss of America. Next come the Trafalgar pages: the British fleet off Cádiz, the combined fleet under Villeneuve, the narrator’s father urging the fleet not to sail, the sudden departure observed from Chiclana, the signal of “combat in sight,” a ship’s explosion at dusk, and the devastating storm that followed. Cádiz rallies to care for the wounded under Solano’s direction; Gravina is gravely hurt, Valdés is saved in extremis, and harrowing individual wounds and rescues abound, while captured ships are wrecked, retaken, or brought into port (notably the Santa Ana with Álava). The narrator finally learns of his father’s death, and reflects on poems, sermons, and the navy’s later decline and partial revival. The section closes by launching a new sketch: Madrid under Carlos IV—ugly, dirty, and poorly built by comparison, with modest interiors, uneven wealth, many carriages, and two shabby theaters—framing the social texture the memoir will keep exploring. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cMadrid: Imprenta Central a cargo de Víctor Saiz, 1878
653			_aSpain -- History -- Napoleonic Conquest, 1808-1813
653			_aSpain -- History -- Charles IV, 1788-1808
653			_aSpain -- History -- Ferdinand VII, 1813-1833
856	4		_uhttps://www.bibliotecadigitaldeandalucia.es/catalogo/es/consulta/registro.do?id=1013412
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77703
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