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The Dos de Mayo
2–3 May 1808 — Madrid rises against French occupation; hundreds are executed in reprisal. Goya painted the firing squads — war stripped of all glory. Remember.
This is one scene of Chapter 7 — The Empire and Its Cracks in The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848.
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