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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict that devastated Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939. It began after an attempted coup d'état by a group of Spanish Army generals against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of president Manuel Azaña. The nationalist...
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Battle of Guadalajara
The Battle of Guadalajara (March 8 - March 23, 1937) saw the Spanish Popular Army (Ejército Popular Republicano, or EPR) defeat Italian and Nationalist forces attempting to encircle Madrid during the Spanish Civil War. The Nationalist forces...
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- 15 days (Mar 8, 1937 — Mar 23, 1937)
Battle of the Ebro
The Battle of the Ebro (Spanish: Batalla del Ebro, Catalan: Batalla de l'Ebre) was the last great Republican offensive in the Spanish Civil War.
By 1938, the Second Spanish Republic was in dire straits. The Basque Country had fallen, the Workers'...
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- 3 months (Jul 25, 1938 — Nov 16, 1938)
Bombing of Guernica
The bombing of Guernica (April 26, 1937) was an aerial attack on the Basque town of Guernica, causing widespread destruction and civilian deaths during the Spanish Civil War. The raid by planes of the German Luftwaffe "Condor Legion" and the Italian...
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- Apr 26, 1937 — Apr 26, 1937
Battle of El Mazuco
The Battle of El Mazuco was fought between September 6 and September 22, 1937, between the Republican and Nationalist armies during the Spanish Civil War as a part of the War in the North campaign. The Republican defence of El Mazuco and the...
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- 16 days (Sep 6, 1937 — Sep 22, 1937)
Battle of Cape Palos
The Battle of Cape Palos, also known as the Second Battle of Cape Palos, was the biggest naval battle of the Spanish Civil War, fought on the night of March 5 - 6 1938, 70 miles east of Cape Palos near Cartagena, Spain.
On March 5, 1938, the...
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- 1 days (Mar 5, 1938 — Mar 6, 1938)
Battle of Badajoz
The Battle of Badajoz was one of the first major Nationalist victories in the Spanish Civil War. A series of costly assaults won the Nationalists the fortified border city of Badajoz on August 14, 1936, cutting off the Spanish Republic from...
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- Aug 14, 1936 — Aug 14, 1936
Battle of Cape Espartel
The Battle of Cape Espartel was a naval battle of the Spanish Civil War that broke the Republican blockade of the Strait of Gibraltar, securing the naval supply route to Spanish Morocco for the Nationalists early in the war. The action erupted on...
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- Sep 29, 1936 — Sep 29, 1936
Battle of Cape Cherchell
The Battle of Cape Cherchell was a sea battle between the Nationalist heavy cruiser Baleares and the Republican light cruisers Libertad and Méndez Núñez in the Spanish Civil War. In the early morning hours of September 7, 1937, Baleares unexpectedly...
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- Sep 7, 1937 — Sep 7, 1937
Battle of Mérida
The Battle of Mérida saw Republican militia twice fail to halt the Spanish Army of Africa near the historic town of Mérida early in the Spanish Civil War.
The Nationalists routed the Republicans from the city August 10, 1936 and secured control the...
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- 1 days (Aug 10, 1936 — Aug 11, 1936)
Siege of the Alcázar
The Siege of the Alcázar was a highly symbolic Nationalist victory in Toledo in the opening stages of the Spanish Civil War. The Alcázar of Toledo was held by a variety of military forces in favor of the Nationalist uprising. Militias of the parties...
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- 2 months (Jul 21, 1936 — Sep 27, 1936)
Battle of Belchite
Battle of Belchite was a group of military operations that took place in the Spanish Civil War between August 24 and September 7, 1937 nearby the town of Belchite, in the Aragon.
After failed attempts to capture Brunete, the Republican military...
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- 14 days (Aug 24, 1937 — Sep 7, 1937)
Battle of Málaga
The Battle of Málaga was the culmination of an offensive in early 1937 by the combined Nationalist and Italian forces to eliminate Republican control of the province of Málaga during the Spanish Civil War. The participation of Moroccan regulars and...
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- 5 days (Feb 3, 1937 — Feb 8, 1937)
Battle of Brunete
The Battle of Brunete (6 July – 25 July 1937), fought 15 miles west of Madrid, was a Republican attempt to alleviate the pressure exerted by the Nationalists on the capital and on the north during the Spanish Civil War. Although initially successful...
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- 19 days (Jul 6, 1937 — Jul 25, 1937)
Battle of the Corunna Road
The Battle of the Corunna Road was a battle of the Spanish Civil War from 13 December 1936 to 15 January 1937, north west of Madrid.
The Battle of Madrid in November 1936 had been fought to a standstill, with the Nationalists failing to take the...
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- 1 months (Dec 13, 1936 — Jan 15, 1937)
Siege of Madrid
The Siege of Madrid was a three year siege of the Spanish capital Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. Madrid was held by various forces loyal to the Second Spanish Republic and was besieged by Spanish Nationalist and allied troops...
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- 2 years (Nov 1936 — Mar 28, 1939)
Battle of Jarama
The Battle of Jarama (February 6 - February 27, 1937) was an attempt by General Franco's Nationalists to dislodge the Republican lines along the river Jarama, just east of Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War. Elite Spanish Legionnaires and Moroccan...
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- 21 days (Feb 6, 1937 — Feb 27, 1937)
Battle of Teruel
The Battle of Teruel was fought in and around the city of Teruel during the Spanish Civil War in December 1937-February 1938. The combatants fought the battle during the worst Spanish winter in twenty years. It was one of the bloodier actions of the...
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- 2 months (Dec 15, 1937 — Feb 22, 1938)
Siege of Gijón
The Siege of Gijón in the Spanish Civil War saw Anarchist militia defeat a small Nationalist garrison in Gijón, between July 19 and August 16, 1936. The militia—nominally fighting in defense of the Republic—laid siege to the Simancas Barracks in the...
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- 28 days (Jul 19, 1936 — Aug 16, 1936)
Battle of the Sierra Guadalupe
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...
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- 14 days (Aug 17, 1936 — Aug 31, 1936)
Battle of Talavera de la Reina
The Battle of Talavera de la Reina was fought on September 3, 1936 in the Spanish Civil War. The Republicans, attempting to bar the road to Madrid at Talavera de la Reina, were defeated by the professional army of the Nationalists, with heavy...
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- Sep 3, 1936 — Sep 3, 1936
Battle of Monte Pelato
The Battle of Monte Pelato ("Bald Mountain") was an engagement of the Spanish Civil War fought on 28 August 1936. It was notable as the first major engagement of the Italian anti-fascist volunteers of the Matteotti Battalion.
Monte Pelato, in Aragon...
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- Aug 28, 1936 — Aug 28, 1936
Battle of Santander
The Battle of Santander was fought over the summer of 1937 in the War in the North campaign in the Spanish Civil War. Santander's fall on September 1 assured the Nationalist conquest of the province of Santander and marked the last stand of the...
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- 18 days (Aug 14, 1937 — Sep 1, 1937)
Battle of Mallorca
The Battle of Majorca, known as the Majorca Landings (in Spanish optimistically called the Reconquista de Mallorca, "Reconquest of Majorca" by the Republicans) was an amphibious landing early in the Spanish Civil War aimed at driving the...
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- 27 days (Aug 16, 1936 — Sep 12, 1936)
Siege of Oviedo
The Siege of Oviedo was a siege of the Spanish Civil War that lasted from July 19, 1936 until October 16, 1936. The town garrison under the command of Colonel Antonio Aranda Mata declared for the rising and held out until relieved by a Nationalist...
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- 2 months (Jul 19, 1936 — Oct 16, 1936)
War in the North
The War in the North, in the Spanish Civil War was the campaign in which the Nationalist forces defeated and occupied the parts of northern Spain that remained loyal to the Republican government. The campaign included several separate battles. The...
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- 6 months (Mar 31, 1937 — Oct 21, 1937)
Aragon Offensive
The Aragon Offensive in the Spanish Civil War was the Nationalist campaign that began after the Battle of Teruel. The offensive began on March 7, 1938, and ended in April 19, 1938. The offensive smashed the Republican forces and overran Aragon and...
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- 1 months (Mar 7, 1938 — Apr 19, 1938)
Catalonia Offensive
The Catalonia Offensive was part of the Spanish Civil War. The Nationalist Army started the offensive on December 23, 1938, and rapidly conquered Republican held Catalonia with its capital city, Barcelona. Barcelona was captured on January 26, and...
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- 1 months (Dec 23, 1938 — Feb 10, 1939)
Battle of Bilbao
The Battle of Bilbao was part of the War in the North, during the Spanish Civil War where the Nationalist Army captured the city of Bilbao and the remaining parts of the Basque Country still held by the Republic.
Bilbao was the capital of the...
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- 1936 — 1936
Campaign of Guipúzcoa
The Campaign of Guipúzcoa was part of the Spanish Civil War where the Nationalist Army conquered the northern province of Guipúzcoa, (part of the Basque Country), held by the Republic. Initially conceived by General Emilio Mola as an advance to Irun...
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- 2 months (Jul 20, 1936 — Sep 26, 1936)
Battle of Irún
The Battle of Irún was the critical battle of the Campaign of Guipúzcoa prior to the War in the North, during the Spanish Civil War. The Nationalist Army under Alfonso Beorlegui captured the city of Irún cutting off the northern provinces of...
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- 17 days (Aug 19, 1936 — Sep 5, 1936)
XYZ Line
The XYZ Line or Matallana Line was a system of fortifications built during the Spanish Civil War to defend the capital of the Second Spanish Republic in Valencia. Unlike the Maginot line, or the "Cinturón de Hierro" or Iron Belt of Bilbao that were...
Duration:
- 6 days (Jul 18, 1938 — Jul 24, 1938)
