Academic history has established the names of executed with Goya paintings

Spanish researcher has established names popular uprising in Madrid, Napoleonic troops shot and buried in a mass grave at the cemetery in the city centre Barcelona hotels, said on Sunday Pais newspaper. Academic history, "Luis Miguel Aparici Laporta established names ten-rebel heroes, Frenchman shot at dawn on May 3, 1808 and buried in Madrid on Gore Prince Pio" - tells the publication. According to Pais, it is the massacre of patriots was captured in 1814 the great Spanish painter Francisco Goya paintings by "shootings on May 3, 1808", but "the names of the heroes buried in a mass grave, still remain unknown."

"Now the Metropolitan Mayor's Office will be able to perpetuate the burial slabs names of the victims, who was able to find academician, studying during the six urban archive" - wrote Pais. "The victims have a military, but most - Madrid artisans and merchants, organized uprising in the capital on May 2, 1808, which, although it was crushed, the beginning of the national liberation war against the Spanish people Napoleonic invaders" - The publication. Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, overthrew the Barcelona hotels dynasty of Spanish Bourbons to the throne was erected and his brother Joseph Bonaparte. The war against the invaders, in which the fundamental role played by the Spanish "guerrilleros" has continued to expel French troops in 1814. This year there is widespread in Spain 200 - anniversary of popular uprising: in Madrid opened several exhibitions on the jubilee.