(red and yellow, with two blue-blue stripes) and emblems with arms of Spain. Their mottos:" Patria, Libertad e Independencia ", and the cry of" Long live the freedom! " On the morning of December 2, they saw the city of Málaga, after almost forty hours of travel. Arriving at the coast they were surprised by the ship Neptune '', which opened fire on the liberals. With no more shelter than the land itself, Torrijos and his men hurried to the beach of El Charcón. Then the group of Torrijos began its way towards the Sierra de Mijas. When they were near the town of Mijas they saw formations arranged to cut off their passage and to capture them and the men Torrijos orders in that border the town. After several days of walking, they descended along the north slope of the Sierra de Mijas and enter the Guadalhorce valley towards Alhaurín de la Torre, located twenty kilometers from Málaga. They took refuge in Torrealquería of the Count of Mollina in Alhaurín de la Torre. With the first light of day December 4, 1831, Realist Volunteers fired their weapons to indicate that the liberals had been located and were surrounded. Then the attack began. The Liberals, for their part, opened fire from within. Torrijos finally decided to surrender and hope that in Málaga the course of events had changed. The group was taken prisoner and marched to the Convent of San Andrés (Málaga) | Convento de los Carmelitas Descalzos de San Andrés, where they spent their last hours. At 11:30 in the morning on Sunday 11 December, Torrijos and his 48 companions were executed. A monument honors the memory of the companions who were shot with General Torrijos. They were shot without trial in two groups on the San Andrés beach of Málaga. "In the first one was Torrijos, who was not allowed to send for the execution squad, as he had requested." References Bibliography External links 1791 births 1831 deaths People from Madrid 19th-century Spanish nobility Spanish generals Spanish Freemasons People of the Peninsular War People executed by Spain by firing squad Spanish military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars