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Aerial parade by the Spanish Air Force Patrulla Águila (Eagle Patrol) drawing a Spanish flag with smoke at the Armed Forces Parade.. National Day of Spain is a holiday throughout the entire country, so all central (national) government's and autonomous communities' (provincial) institutions and administration offices are closed on that day, as are banks and stores.
Ceuta garrison of the legion Ceuta garrison of the legion The legion on parade 105mm L118 light gun of the legion artillery group The 4th Tercio Guión. For centuries, Spain recruited foreign soldiers to its army, forming the foreign regiments (Infantería de línea extranjera) such as the Regiment of Hibernia (formed in 1709 from Irishmen who fled their own country in the wake of the Flight ...
The recruits joining the military service first underwent a period of military instruction in the training camp of their unit of assignment, in an isolated environment, where soldiers were trained in theory and practice and where they were prepared for weeks for the flag-swearing parade and where the commanders took great care to ensure that ...
The squadron during the Fiesta Nacional de España military parade in Madrid. The Air and Space Force Honors Squadron (Spanish: Escuadrilla de Honores del Ejército del Aire y del Espacio) [1] is the ceremonial unit attached to the as an operational component of the Spanish Air and Space Force.
The first ever military parade in years to be held on the holiday was marked in 2006. The parade on 2 January 2017 (postponed for 1 month due to the Death and state funeral of Fidel Castro) was the second and the final event marking the diamond jubilee since the events of 1956.
Under Francisco Franco, by Decree of February 4, 1949, the Military House of the Generalissimo was reorganized and on the basis of the republican formations the Regiment of the Guards of His Excellency the Head of State (Regimiento de la Guardia de Su Excelencia el Jefe del Estado), later on the Guards Regiment of HE the Generalissimo ...
The parade was commanded by General Andrés Saliquet, Commander of the Madrid Military Region, and was presided by the Franco. More than 120,000 men and 1,000 vehicles took part in the parade, including small contingents of the German Condor Legion , the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie and the Portuguese Viriatos .
During the 18th century the new Bourbon dynasty revived Spain's economic and military power through a series of important reforms in the armed forces and the economy, notably those of Charles III of Spain. Thanks to these reforms, Spain performed well during the war of Jenkins' Ear defending overseas territory, won the war of Austrian ...