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Title: El escaño de Cartago
Creator: Córdova i Jarmillo, Federico
Publication Info: Bogotá : Imprenta de Echeverría Hermanos, June 04, 1858.
Physical Details: 51 x 35 5/10 cm

Historical Notes: Several other broadsides in the Helguera Collection refer to this and other assassination attempts against Mosquera. A few of them are in this database including "T.C. de Mosquera, Gran General, Presidente constitutional de Colombia, peso indebiamente en el Observatorio de Bogota, a sus compatrioatas!" (record #443), "Tentativa de asesinato" (record #437), and "Roberto Morales y Tomás C. de Mosquera" (record #474).
Donor Notes: The son of Col. Salvador Córdova, shot by Gen. Mosquera in 1842, in Catrago, rejects the General's offers of help, reminding him of his crime, and denying any role in the assassination attempt of 2/3 June, 1858. - J.L.H.

Subject(s): Colombia -- Politics and government -- 1858-1886
Mosquera, T. C. de (Tomás Cipriano), 1798-1878
Related Items in the Collection: Tentativa de asesinato

Type: Broadside
Language: Spanish
Format: JPG
PDF - Color
Donor: Helguera, J. León
Collection: Helguera, J. León Collection
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Accession Number: B01047
Record Number: 501