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Title: Roberto Morales y Tomás C. de Mosquera
Publication Info: Bogotá : Imprenta constitucional, May 20, 1864.
Physical Details: 41 x 29 1/10 cm

Summary: An unidentified witness recounts the young Roberto Morales' attempt to assassinate T.C. Mosquera on April 20, 1864. Then the author recounts the history between Morales' family and Mosquera that may have motivated the attack.
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 "El escaño de Cartago" (record #501).

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

Type: Broadside
Language: Spanish
Format: JPG
PDF - Color
Donor: Helguera, J. León
Collection: Helguera, J. León Collection
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Accession Number: B00800
Record Number: 474