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JUAN, a Spanish general; born in Reus, Dec. 6, 1814; rose rapidly to be a colonel, general, marshal, and marquis. Failing in an insurrectionary attempt in 1866, he fled to England and Brussels, but here he guided the movement that in 1868 overthrew Isabella. attempt in 1866, he fled to England and He secured the election of an Italian prince, Amadeo, as king, and shot by an assassin, died Dec. 30, 1870.

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