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An illustration of a torture horse of the Spanish donkey variety. Riding a rail, sketched by Andrew W. Warren in November 1864. The first variation of the wooden horse is a triangular device with one end of the triangle pointing upward, mounted on a sawhorse-like support. The victim is made to straddle the triangular "horse."
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 ...
This is a list of weapons used by the Spanish Republican side of the Spanish Civil War.The majority of Republican military equipment was obtained through the Soviet Union who supported the Spanish Republicans through shipments of Soviet arms and arms from other countries in the possession of the Soviet Union from past Russian conflicts.
Miquelet lock was invented by gunsmiths in Madrid during the late 16th century (circa 1570). Molotov cocktails were first developed in Spain during the Spanish civil war and were ordered to be used by the Nationalist forces against Soviet T-26 tanks supporting the Spanish Republic.
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, revolution and revenge (3 ed.). HarperCollins. Preston, Paul (2008). We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War. Constable. ISBN 978-1-84529-851-7. Romero Salvadó, Francisco J. (2005). The Spanish Civil War: Origins, Course and Outcomes. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230203051.
The background of the Spanish Civil War dates back to the end of the 19th century, when the owners of large estates, called latifundios, held most of the power in a land-based oligarchy. The landowners' power was unsuccessfully challenged by the industrial and merchant sectors.
List of tanks in the Spanish Civil War [11] [12] BA-3/6 (captured) [13] See also. List of Spanish Civil War weapons of the Republicans; References
The Battle of Bilbao, part of the War in the North in the Spanish Civil War, saw the Nationalist Army capture Bilbao and the rest of the Basque Country that was still being held by the Spanish Republic.