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The siege of Madrid was a two-and-a-half-year siege of the Republican-controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the Nationalist armies, under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The city, besieged from October 1936, fell to the Nationalist armies on 28 March 1939.
Euzko Gudarostea besieged the town of Villarreal. Although Nationalist forces repelled their offensive, they secured some land in the nearby mountains. [66] Inconclusive Siege of Madrid: November 8, 1936 – March 28, 1939 Nationalist forces besieged the city of Madrid. After a few years of fighting the city fell to the rebels. [67] [68 ...
Eusebio Blasco (1873), Madrid por dentro y por fuera: Guia de forasteros incautos [Madrid inside and out: stranger's guide] (in Spanish), Julian Peña, OCLC 34689580, OL 23446308M Madame d'Aulnoy (1874), Mme B. Carey (ed.), La cour et la ville de Madrid vers la fin du XVIIe siècle [ The court and the city of Madrid in the late seventeenth ...
The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) broke out with a military uprising in Morocco on July 17, triggered by events in Madrid.Within days, Spain was divided in two: a "Republican" or "Loyalist" Spain consisting of the Second Spanish Republic (within which were pockets of revolutionary anarchism and Trotskyism), and a "Nationalist" Spain under the insurgent generals, and, eventually, under the ...
Vázquez Camarassa, a Madrid preacher with left-wing views, was sent to the Alcázar during the morning of September 11, performed the necessary functions and issued a general absolution to the defenders of the Alcázar. That evening, Rojo met with Moscardó to discuss the evacuation of the women and children.
During the Civil War, living in a besieged Madrid, his health worsens and he has to devise solutions to keep painting, since it was impossible to buy proper instruments like paint or canvas. After the Civil War he continued his activity with less intensity, receiving the Extraordinary Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in 1943.
Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales. ISSN 0048-7694. Brandis García, Dolores (2008). "La expansión de la ciudad en el siglo XX". Madrid, de la Prehistoria a la Comunidad Autónoma (PDF). Madrid: Consejería de Educación de la Comunidad de Madrid. pp. 519– 539. ISBN 978-84-451-3139-8. Cañas de Pablos, Alberto (2018).
The Dos de Mayo or Second of May Uprising took place in Madrid, Spain, on 2–3 May 1808.The rebellion, mainly by civilians, with some isolated military action [4] by junior officers, was against the occupation of the city by French troops, and was violently repressed by the French Imperial forces, [5] with hundreds of public executions.