Carlism

General Cabrera's Carlist army camp - Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau
98 piece jigsaw puzzle

It looked like a cool old painting of some soldiers, but figuring out just who these guys are took some digging. The artist, Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, has depicted zillions of scenes from Spanish history in his paintings. This one is of some Carlist soldiers. Carlist, as in Carlism, not a list of cars on the internet. Never heard of it? Me neither, but Wikipedia knows all:

[Carlism is a political movement in Spain aimed at establishing a branch of the Bourbon dynasty on the Spanish throne.]

It was at its strongest in the 1830s but experienced a revival following Spain's defeat in the Spanish–American War in 1898, when Spain lost its last remaining significant overseas territories of Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to the United States.

Carlism was a significant force in Spanish politics from 1833 until the end of the Francoist regime in 1975. In this capacity, it was the cause of the Carlist Wars of the 19th century and an important factor in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. Today, Carlists are a minor party.

And it's not an old painting, the Augusto was born in 1964.