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Battle of Tirapegui

1836 battle of the First Carlist War

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4872533 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Battle of Tirapegui was fought on April 26, 1836, between Liberals and Carlists in Spain during the First Carlist War. With the help of the French Foreign Legion, the Liberals were victorious.

Editorial summary

“Battle of Tirapegui” enters the record as 1836 battle of the First Carlist War. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Battle, Tirapegui and battle can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1836—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Battle, Tirapegui and battle.
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Why this record matters

“Battle of Tirapegui” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Battle, Tirapegui and battle provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4872533. Authority coordinates are 42.910, -1.546. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1836.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Battle of Tirapegui” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.