[El Salvador]:

La Guardia de Honor Batallon Numero Primero del Ejercito de la Republica... [caption title].

San Salvador: 1861. Broadside, 12.5 x 8.5 inches. Old folds, minor creasing, small marginal tears and marginal chips along edges, not affecting text. Lower corner torn away, signs of tape repair to verso, slightly browned due to paper quality. Good. Item #3383

An evidently unrecorded broadside from El Salvador that thanks the “soldados ciudadanos" for their loyalty to Gerardo Barrios, the President of El Salvador from 1859 to 1863. The document also urges these citizens to be prepared to arise from their peaceful existence at any time in order to defend their leader. Barrios was a popular President, considered a national hero, who improved the education system in El Salvador and worked to lessen the influence of the Catholic Church, ordering all priests in El Salvador to swear loyalty to the government. In 1863 he lost his presidency to conservative leader Francisco Dueñas Díaz in a coup, after which he fled the country. Barrios was court martialed and beheaded in 1865 when he returned in an attempt to regain power. None in OCLC.

Price: $500