[1] Thus, shortly after the failed coup sponsored by the unitary republicans, Cárceles was found giving a speech at a demonstration on April 27 which demanded the immediate establishment of a federal republic, insisting on this request at another rally the following month.

[3] Despite this, on July 12 the cantonal rebellion took place in Cartagena, in which Cárceles participated in command of the group of Volunteers of the Republic (Voluntarios de la República) and armed civilians who occupied the City Hall, the San José and Muelle Gates, and the Telegraph House, on behalf of a local Revolutionary Junta in which he refused to hold a position.

[6] Manuel Cárceles, like all those who had been members of the Revolutionary Junta, was excluded from the pardon promised by the besieging general José López Domínguez and so, to avoid his capture after the fall of the Canton of Cartagena on January 12, 1874, he embarked on the armoured frigate Numancia and, together with 1635 other people, headed for exile in Oran after breaking the blockade held by the government fleet.

[7] In the relative safety of French Algeria, the activities of Manuel Cárceles and other cantonal leaders were closely watched by the Spanish consulate in Oran, which in 1874 notified him that it had made an application for a passport for Switzerland.

[12] Because of his significance in the events of the Cantonal Rebellion, Cárceles makes an appearance in the historical novels De Cartago a Sagunto (1911) by Benito Pérez Galdós, and Míster Witt en el cantón (1935) by Ramón J.