Mallorca ante la Guerra de la Convención Francesa. Defensas, movilización popular levantamiento de milicia

Abstract

The War of the Convention (1793 to 1796) pitted Revolutionary France against the Spanish monarchy during the French Revolutionary Wars. This military episode altered international policy of that period and placed Majorca on alert as strategic site in the western Mediterranean. The island mobilised considerable number of men organised in a large number of urban militia while royal troops came to the aid of the Iberian Peninsula and Catalonia.