Tragic Week
The impressment in Mainland Spain that followed the beginning of the conflict would bring the insurrection of the popular classes (the unjust system provided the wealthy with facilities to avoid impressment), spilling over into the Tragic Week events, that took place from late July to early August, most acrimoniously in Barcelona, where protests intertwined with outbursts of anticlerical violence, forcing the Maura government to suspend Constitutional guarantees in the whole country after 28 July.