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While some cabinet ministers in the newly founded Second Spanish Republic wanted to intervene and restore order, other cabinet ministers opposed the idea. According to the canonical narrative, Prime Minister Manuel Azaña allegedly overruled those who wished to intervene by stating, "All the convents of Spain are not worth the life of a single ...
Emil Holmdahl and his pet dog during the campaign against Zapata. Later, a stray bullet hit the dog out of the saddle. In Early-mid summer a trainload of woman and children were being "abused by the Zapatistas.", the Maderistas decided to send a small force of 27 Rurales, under the command of the American Soldier of Fortune, Emil Lewis Holmdahl, who had fought in both the Spanish–American ...
Viriatos, named after the Lusitanian leader Viriathus, was the generic name given to Portuguese volunteers who fought with the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. [1] In the first weeks of the war, the Portuguese Army tried to form a Viriatos Legion to aid the Nationalist insurgents in Spain. The Legion was disbanded before any recruitment ...
As a result of the failure of the coup, the Spanish Civil War began immediately afterwards. Aside from the capital city of Sevilla, the southern region of Andalucía (Andalusia) was primarily a Republican stronghold during the war. Málaga, a Republican city on the southern coast of Andalucia, was soon targeted by the Nationalist forces.
Triumphant nationalist forces parade through Bilbao; a Panzer I light tank passes several armoured vehicles.. Bilbao was the capital of the autonomous Basque area, which had been established by the Spanish Republic after the war began to reward Basque nationalist support of the Republic.
Diablita — “Little Devil” in Spanish — is one hell of a nickname to explain to a jury. A reputed MS-13 member accused of luring rival gang members to their deaths in a Long Island park ...
In a confessional, Richards reflected how she hasn’t moved past the sexual assault. “I think that I haven't addressed a lot of what I have gone through, and it's very terrifying.
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 ...