text:  Notwithstanding the absurdity of Chacon's demonstration it attracted the attention of the Christino party then in power; and as at that period all the officers of rank known to entertain Royalist opinions were deprived one after the other of their commands there was nothing surprising in the same measure being adopted with regard to Zumalacarregui although nothing could be alleged against him whether as a man of honour or in a military or political point of view