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General Grant Encounters Terrorism in Madrid: The 1878 Attempted Regicide of King Alfonso XII
When former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant visited Europe on a post-presidential world tour in the late 1870s political terrorism was in its nascent stage. TheĀ International Workingmen’s AssociationĀ (or First International) split in 1872 betweenĀ anarchist and statistĀ factions and disbanded in 1876. After that, violence against heads of state increased.
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