ABSTRACT
The century between Napoleon’s fall and the outbreak of World War I saw a notable spreading of military conscription and the steady growth of large standing armies. Firepower increased enormously, while the revolutionary changes in the means of transport made for the first time for the rapid assembling and moving of vast contingents of men. Latin America is the guerrilla continent par excellence. In the entire history of Central and South America it is difficult to point to more than a handful of full-scale, regular wars; on the other hand, there were countless external and internal guerrilla wars, too many for enumeration. Guerrilla warfare in post-NapoIeonic Europe was limited mainly to the south and east of the continent; more often than not it occurred in the wider context of wars of national liberation or civil wars. This applies to the first and second Carlist wars in Spain.
