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Bitter street fighting ensued, and Durruti, the anarchist leader, was killed on the 19th. Three theories attempt to explain the mystery of Durruti's death. The bullet may have come from a nationalist soldier. Others believe that Durruti was killed by the accidental discharge of one of his own men's weapons. A third theory suggests he was betrayed and killed on order of the communists. Despite fierce counterattacks by the XI International Brigade and Spanish Republican units, the Nationalists kept their toehold in the University City and, by the end of the battle, were in possession of three quarters of the complex. However, their attempt to storm Madrid had failed in the face of unexpectedly-stiff Republican resistance. Franco stopped further infantry assaults, as he could not risk losing any more of his best
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was all that he would accept. On 26 March, Franco ordered a general advance into Madrid, and on the 27th, the Republican front collapsed, many of whose troops surrendered or simply threw away their weapons and started for home. On 28 March, Madrid finally fell to Franco's forces. In spite of Casado's
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was fought about 60 km north-east of Madrid when Republican troops routed an attempt by Italian troops to cross the Jarama and encircle Madrid's defences to launch an assault on the city. Italian and Nationalist losses were significantly higher than that of the Republicans. Around a third of the
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Prison, the target of the offensive, but the attack stalled at the western fringe of the city. The Republican General Miaja himself reputedly raced to the ruined buildings to which the Republican troops were starting to flee and, pistol in hand, called upon the retreating troops to rally and die with
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In 1938, the siege of Madrid tightened and its population suffered increasingly from a lack of food, warm clothes and arms and ammunition. However, Franco had by now given up on the idea of another frontal assault on the city but was happy to constrict the siege gradually and to continue to bomb the
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The Republicans had deployed 12,000 troops in Carabanchel and 30,000 more to meet the main assault at the Casa de Campo. Despite their superiority in numbers, they were badly equipped since they had mostly only small arms, with reputedly only ten rounds for each rifle. In addition, most of them had
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in the city centre. Although few and with their training unfinished, since they had been hurried to the front as a relief force, their arrival was a major morale boost for the defenders of Madrid. The foreign troops, while actually a mixture of volunteers from Germany, France, Britain and various
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However, the Nationalists' attempt to capture Madrid had some serious tactical drawbacks. Their troops were outnumbered by over two to one by the defenders although the Nationalists were far better trained and equipped. Another disadvantage was their inability to surround Madrid and to cut it off
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On the 19th, the Nationalists made their final frontal assault. Under cover of a heavy artillery bombardment, Moroccan and Foreign Legion troops fought their way into the University City quarter of Madrid. While their advance was checked, they established a bridgehead over the Manzanares River.
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On 10 November, the Nationalists switched the focus of their offensive to the Carabanchel suburb, but the heavily urban area proved to be a very difficult obstacle. The colonial Moroccan troops were pinned down in house-to-house fighting (in which they had little previous experience since their
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launched an assault of the XI International Brigade on the Nationalist positions in the Casa de Campo, which lasted for the whole night and part of the next morning. At the end of the fight, the Nationalist troops had been forced to retreat and abandoned all hopes of a direct assault on Madrid
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again developed into a bloody stalemate. The initial Republican attack took Brunete and pushed back the Nationalist front some 12 km, but determined Nationalist counterattacks retook this territory by the end of the battle. Republican losses were significantly higher than those of the
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over the River Manzanares, in the University City, through the Casa de Campo park, and through the streets of the Carabanchel area Madrid was subjected to a sporadic artillery and aerial bombardment, and food became short as the winter went on. The UGT transferred some vital industries to
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in Madrid, was preparing to launch the military rebellion in the city. However, when he tried to march out of the barracks, his 2,500 troops were forced back inside the compound by hostile crowds and armed trade unionists. On the 20th, the barracks was stormed by a mixture of workers and
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commanded their armoured forces. About 90% of the Republican defenders of Madrid were militias raised by left-wing political parties or trade unions, which elected their own leaders. The Republican command had relatively little control over the units in the early phase of the Civil War.
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For the remainder of the war, Madrid was held by the Republicans. However, its population contained a significant number of Nationalist sympathisers, over 20,000 of which sought refuge in foreign embassies in the city. The weeks that followed the July uprising saw a number of so-called
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sergeant sympathetic to the Republicans. The sergeant was killed by one of his officers, but his action allowed the Republicans to breach the walls. Many soldiers were massacred by the crowd, which had been enraged by the apparent false surrenders, after the fall of the barracks.
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through the Casa de Campo, while the XIth Brigade had lost a third of its men. Meanwhile, Republican troops counterattacked all along the front in Madrid, on 9, 10 and 17 November, driving the Nationalists back at some places, but taking heavy casualties in the process.
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Arguably, that tactic by Franco was counter-productive, as the Republican population in Madrid was not cowed into surrender, and the aerial bombardment of civilians, one of the first in the history of warfare, was heavily criticised by foreign journalists such as
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In late 1937, the Nationalists took much of northern Spain, the country's industrial heartland, with its many arms factories, which had sustained the Republican war effort. At the very end of the year, the Republican commander of the IV Corps at the time,
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fell to the Nationalists, leaving their troops at the western suburb of Madrid. Mola famously remarked to an English journalist that he would take Madrid with his four columns of regular and Moroccan troops from southwest in Spain outside the city and his
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The casualties inflicted in the Battle of Madrid were never accurately counted, but the British historian Hugh Thomas estimated that they were a total about 10,000 for both sides and the civilian population.They were not ready to fight in the war.
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The Siege of Madrid became a mythic subject in the popular imagination during the Spanish Civil War. The besieged capital of Spain, with the enemy so close, yet unable to take the city for years on end, became the subject of songs, such as
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By the spring of 1939, after the collapse of the Republican forces on other fronts, the Republican cause in Madrid was clearly doomed, which created a bitter division within Republican ranks. On one side was the socialist Prime Minister
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and others, who wanted to negotiate the surrender of Madrid to spare Republican supporters the worst of the Nationalist retribution. On 5 March, Casado's men arrested communist officers in Madrid, stripped them of their powers,
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park on a front of only 1 km (0.62 mi) wide to try to avoid street fighting, as the park was open country and lay just across the river from the city centre. Mola's initial intention was to take the
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efforts at negotiation, many of the Republican defenders of Madrid were among the almost 200,000 people who were executed or died during imprisonment by Franco's regime between 1939 and 1943.
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him, rather than flee as cowards. Throughout the day, the city radio called upon the citizens to mobilise and support the front, with the rallying cry "¡No pasarán!" ('They shall not pass!')
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separated the Nationalists from the city centre and was a formidable physical obstacle. Mola planned his assault on Madrid for 8 November 1936. He planned to attack through the
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militia, raised troops in the north. Together, they planned a "Drive on Madrid" with Franco advancing from Badajoz, which he took in August and Mola advancing from
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in November 1936 saw the most intense fighting in and around the city when the Nationalists made their most determined attempt to take the Republican capital.
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city of Madrid heavily damaged, but morale remained still strong in the population, and Madrilenes prided themselves of doing "business as usual" under fire.
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never been trained in the use of weapons, let alone experienced combat before. Nevertheless, they held off the Nationalist onslaught at Casa de Campo. Some
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After the Battle of Madrid, the Republican government tried to reorganise its armed forces from a collection of militias into a regular army, the
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Valley by the Republican 5th regiment as potential "Fifth Columnists". It has been alleged that the killings were ordered by the communist leader
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Having failed to take Madrid by assault, Franco ordered the aerial bombardment of the city's residential areas except for the upper-class
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greatest strength was in open-country warfare) and took heavy casualties at the hands of militiamen who knew the urban terrain very well.
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The battle petered out in December, with both sides exhausted. A frontline stabilised in the city, running from the Nationalist
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and his allies instead had to conquer the country by military force if they wanted to seize power. Franco himself had landed in
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or 'Valley of the fallen', a colossal memorial built by Franco near Madrid after the war, to commemorate dead from both sides.
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Colonel Romero had disagreements with anarchists, asked for the dismissal of Ricardo Sanz and proposed the dissolution of the
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commanded Republican forces there and effectively repelled attempts to cross it and to gain access to Madrid's city centre.
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or fascist sympathisers being killed in Madrid by Republicans. For example, on 23 August, seventy prisoners from the
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to put down the rebellion there. However, on reaching the city, the guardias defected to the insurgents. On 19 July,
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with German, Scandinavian, French, Belgian and Italian troops, launched an attack on Nationalist positions on the
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tunnels under the city that were not in use. Franco's final action of 1936 was to attempt to cut off the road to
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That left Casado free to try to negotiate terms with Franco. However, the Nationalist leader insisted that
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The initial strategy of the military plot had been to assume power all over the country in the manner of a
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launched a pre-emptive offensive of his own, with over 100,000 men on 15 December and took the town of
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Ashes and granite : Destruction and Reconstruction in the Spanish Civil War and Its Aftermath
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personnel were perhaps more important. General Goriev was their overall commander, General
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eventually broke through and made an initial crossing over the Manzanares towards the
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brought up a 75 mm field gun to bombard the complex and its gate was opened by a
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supplied Franco with air cover and armoured units for his assault on Madrid, and the
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Meanwhile, in Madrid, the Republican government had reformed under the leadership of
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intercepted Nationalist plans for a fresh assault on Madrid from the direction of
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In 1937, there were two major battles in the immediate area around Madrid, the
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Comín Colomer, Eduardo (1973); El 5º Regimiento de Milicias Populares. Madrid.
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by telephone, but Mola refused the offer and Martinez Barrio was ousted by
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General Joaquín Fanjul, the commander of the military garrison based in
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List of Spanish Nationalist military equipment of the Spanish Civil War
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List of Spanish Republican military equipment of the Spanish Civil War
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The Republicans had a geographical advantage in defending Madrid: the
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Legislacíón sobre la Placa Laureada de Madrid y Distintivo de Madrid
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Battles That Changed History: Epic Conflicts Explored and Explained
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The first battle in early 1937 had Franco try to cross the River
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controlled the air forces sent from the Soviet Union and General
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Mola attacked on 8 November with 20,000 troops, mostly Moroccan
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In May, Republican forces under the Polish communist officer
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hill, south of the city, to prevent the cutting off of the
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Its strategic location over the Manzanares River made the
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Nationalist aircraft bomb Madrid in late November 1936.
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front as reinforcements for the defence of the capital.
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The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
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and the distribution of their men among other units.
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Prison in the city were massacred in revenge for the
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by Esmond Romilly, The Clapton Press, London. 2018.
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Nationalist "Drive on Madrid" (August–October 1936)
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Index

Battle of Madrid
Spanish Civil War

Madrid
Spain
Spanish Republic
Soviet Union
International Brigades
Spain
Nationalist Spain
Germany
Italy
Spain
Manuel Azaña
Spain
José Miaja
Spain
Vicente Rojo Lluch
Spain
Enrique Líster
Spain
Adolfo Prada
Spain
Carlos Romero
Spain
José María Galán
Spain
Segismundo Casado
Spain
Luis Barceló

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