Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque

At the end of that year, Pavía and Prim organised a mutiny with other generals, but this rebellion didn't succeed due to lack of popular and military support.

After two years of exile, Pavía returned to Spain[1] collaborating again with Prim, but this time he began a successful revolutionary movement in August 1866 with the Pacto de Ostende [ar; ca; es; fr; gl; he] with the Federal Democratic Republican Party.

With the First Spanish Republic proclaimed, during the presidency of Francesc Pi i Margall he and General Arsenio Martínez Campos put down the cantonalist insurrection initiated on 12 July 1873 in Cartagena, which aspired to constitute a federation of the autonomic territorial organizations of the central power.

On 3 January Pavía (whose political posture favoured united centralism) presented himself in the Congress and ordered the evacuation the building at the moment that it was proceeding to a new presidential election ruled by a federalist.

With the coup d'état over, the Fase Pretoriana of the First Republic began,[clarification needed] led by Francisco Serrano (Duque de la Torre).

After the coup d'état, Pavía convened all the political parties—except Cantonalists and Carlists—to form a government of national concentration, which would give power to general Serrano, beginning like this a republican dictatorship that would culminate with the restoration of the monarchy in the person of Alfonso XII.

[citation needed] For a few months he was general in chief of the Central Army, but on 28 September 1874 the Minister of War Francisco Serrano Bedoya chose Joaquín Jovellar y Soler to replace him.