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the coup started at two o'clock in the morning of 18 July. Several engagements followed in which five assault guards and two rebel officers were killed, but by dawn the town was in the hands of the rebels. By mid-morning the only remaining centres of resistance were the High
Commissioner's residence
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Morocco, Mola ordered: "to eliminate left-wing elements, communists, anarchists, union members, etc". The same day as the rising all the members of trade unions, left-wing parties, Masonic lodges and anyone known to have voted for the
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1576:List of governors of Melilla
1535:COVID-19 pandemic in Melilla
1515:Siege of Melilla (1774â1775)
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988:of the Spanish Legion, took
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186:Lt. Col. DarĂo Gazapo ValdĂ©s
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1520:First Melillan campaign
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890:were detained or shot.
888:Second Spanish Republic
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1026:Nationalist repression
968:SeguĂ then telephoned
908:Spanish Army of Africa
814:Sant Vicenç de Calders
147:Commanders and leaders
1561:Coalition for Melilla
1369:The Spanish Civil War
364:Convoy de la Victoria
306:Cuartel de la Montaña
200:Casualties and losses
1469:Transport in Melilla
1449:Melilla border fence
1339:Jackson, G. (1967).
1317:The Battle for Spain
1088:managed to transport
460:Ciudad Universitaria
190:Lt. Col. Luis Solans
1610:Ceuta-Melilla derby
1510:Conquest of Melilla
1366:Thomas, H. (2001).
1314:Beevor, A. (2006).
1250:, pp. 206â207.
1219:, pp. 205â206.
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1076:Strait of Gibraltar
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335:German intervention
183:E. SĂĄenz de Buruaga
169:Virgilio Leret Ruiz
1775:History of Melilla
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276:July 1936 uprising
141:Nationalist rebels
1770:Conflicts in 1936
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