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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.
Napoleon Accepting the Surrender of Madrid (French: Capitulation de Madrid, le 4 décembre 1808) is an 1810 history painting by the French artist Antoine-Jean Gros. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It depicts Napoleon , Emperor of France , accepting the surrender of Madrid , on 4 December 1808, during the Peninsular War .
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 ...
Ruins of Madrid's Muslim wall, built in the 9th century. The primitive urban nucleus of Madrid (Majriṭ) was founded in the late 9th century (from 852 to 886) as a citadel erected on behalf of Muhammad I, the Cordobese emir, on the relatively steep left bank of the Manzanares. [1]
The above photos were snapped by a pair of news photographers, Daniel Ochoa de Olza of the Stunning new photos of a glowing red Supermoon rising behind Madrid's Four Towers skyscrapers Skip to ...
The Third of May 1808 in Madrid (also known as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid or Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío, [2] or Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo. Commonly known as The Third of May 1808 .) [ 1 ] is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya , now in the Museo del Prado , Madrid.
Zendaya and Holland promoting Spider-Man: Homecoming in Madrid, June 2017. (Gabriel Maseda/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images) They laughed it off on social media, but the ...