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  2. Spanish Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic , and consisted of various socialist , communist , separatist , anarchist , and ...

  3. Spanish Revolution of 1936 - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Spanish Revolution was a workers' social revolution that began at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and for two to three years resulted in the widespread implementation of anarchist and, more broadly, libertarian socialist organizational principles throughout various portions of the country, primarily Catalonia, Aragon ...

  4. Songs of the Spanish Civil War - Wikipedia

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    El Himno de Riego - anthem of the Spanish Republic. A Las Barricadas - Spanish anarchist anthem. Hijos del pueblo - Another anarchist anthem. Si me quieres escribir, also known as El Frente de Gandesa - Republican song [2] The Internationale - Socialist anthem. Jarama Valley - Republican song. Spaniens Himmel - "Spain's heaven spreads its ...

  5. Revolutionary Catalonia - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Revolutionary Catalonia[ 1 ] (21 July 1936 – 8 May 1937) was the period in which the autonomous region of Catalonia in northeast Spain was controlled or largely influenced by various anarchist, communist, and socialist trade unions, parties, and militias of the Spanish Civil War era. Although the constitutional Catalan institution of ...

  6. Spain and the American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia

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    This helped Spain gain some relatively easy conquests. North American borders proposed by the Spanish diplomacy near the end of the American Revolutionary War, August 3rd, 1782. The war gave a boost to the kingdom's prestige, which had suffered from the losses to Britain in the Seven Years' War.

  7. Red Terror (Spain) - Wikipedia

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    Ruiz, Julius (2015), The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War: Revolutionary Violence in Madrid, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1107682931 Ruiz, Julius Ruiz (2007), "Defending the Republic: The García Atadell Brigade in Madrid, 1936", Journal of Contemporary History , 42 (1): 97–115, doi : 10.1177/0022009407071625 , JSTOR ...

  8. The British Grenadiers - Wikipedia

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    The following text may date back to the War of Spanish Succession (1702–1713), since it refers to the grenadiers throwing grenades and the men wearing "caps and pouches" (i.e. the tall grenadier caps, [10] worn by these elite troops, and the heavy satchel [11] in which grenades were carried) and "loupèd clothes" – coats with broad bands of 'lace' across the chest that distinguished early ...

  9. Víctor Jara - Wikipedia

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    In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Jara and the second or maternal family name is Martínez. Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbiɣtoɾ ˈliðjo ˈxaɾa maɾˈtines]; 28 September 1932 – 16 September 1973) [1] was a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and Communist [2] political ...