The Battle of Majaceite was fought in the

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. Ramón María Narváez y Campos was ordered to intercept the expedition of the

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general

Miguel Gómez Damas Miguel Gómez Damas (5 June 1785 – 11 June 1849) was a Spanish Carlist general of the First Carlist War. Born at Torredonjimeno, in the province of Jaén, he served under the Carlist general Zumalacárregui and in 1836 undertook an unsucces ...

. Narváez left

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in October 1836 with three divisions, while Gómez Damas left

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on November 18, 1836, entering

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on November 22. On November 23, when he departed Algeciras, Gómez Damas found himself surrounded at the citadel known as Alcalá de los Gazules. Gómez Damas attempted to reach

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, but met Narváez's army at the Majaceite River. The battle resulted with Gómez Damas’ withdrawal to

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. An

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commentator wrote that “it was at Majaciete that arváezrescued Andalucía from the Carlist invasion by a brilliant ''

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'', in a rapid but destruction action, which will not readily be effaced from the memory of the southern provinces.” T. M. Hughes, ''Revelations of Spain in 1845'' (London: Henry Colburn, 1845), 124.

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