The Battle of the Sierra Guadalupe (English: Guadalupe Mountains), also the Tagus Campaign, was a continuation of the Nationalist race north toward Madrid in the early stages of the Spanish Civil War. In late August 1936 the three columns of General Yagüe's Army of Africa dashed across the Guadalupe Mountains in central Spain and plunged into the Tagus valley, capturing several towns and routing the Republicans in a succession of rapid advances.
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The Battle of the Sierra Guadalupe (English: Guadalupe Mountains), also the Tagus Campaign, was a continuation of the Nationalist race north toward Madrid in the early stages of the Spanish Civil War. In late August 1936 the three columns of General Yagüe's Army of Africa dashed across the Guadalupe Mountains in central Spain and plunged into the Tagus valley, capturing several towns and routing the Republicans in a succession of rapid advances.
On August 14 Badajoz fell to the Nationalists under General Yagüe, cutting off the Republic from Portugal. Ahead of him, several hundred miles to the northeast, across the broad Tagus, gleamed Madrid, the aim and object of General Franco's lightning campaign. The Army of Africa's famous northward Marcha (or "March"—actually a fully motorized displacement), consequently, continued without pause into the hills and valleys sheltering Madrid.
To cover these southern approaches, the Republic deployed loyalist General Riquelme with the so-called...
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