History of Spain. Madrid. Attack on General Prim (1814-1870) in calle del Turco (Turk Street) on 27 December 1870. Armed men with blunderbusses attacked his carriage as he was on the way to his residence in the Buenavista Palace. He died three days later from the wounds he had sustained. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.

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