![]() ![]() On August 28, the Vatican recognized the Franco government. This was the Battle of Brunete (Brunete is a town in the province of Madrid).įranco soon regained momentum, invading Aragon in August and then taking the city of Santander (now in Cantabria). ![]() Mola, Franco's second-in-command, died in a plane crash on June 3, and in early July, despite the fall of Bilbao in June, the Republican government launched a strong counter-offensive in the Madrid area, which the Nationalists repulsed with some difficulty. In July, they made a move to recapture Segovia, forcing Franco to pull troops away from the Madrid front to halt their advance. On March 7, the German Condor Legion equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes arrived in Spain on April 26 they bombed the town of Guernica (Gernika) in the Basque Country two days later, Nationalist General Emilio Mola's men entered the town.Īfter the fall of Guernica, the Republican government began to fight back with increasing effectiveness. The large city of Málaga was taken on February 8. On February 21 the League of Nations Non-Intervention Committee ban on foreign volunteers went into effect. With his ranks being swelled by Italian troops and Spanish colonial soldiers from Morocco, Franco made additional attempts to capture Madrid in January and February 1937, but failed again. The Republican side suffered from serious divisions among the various communist and anarchist groupings within it, and the communists undermined much of the anarchists' organisation. ![]() This came just as the French ceased aid to the Republicans, who continued, however, to be able to buy arms from the Soviet Union. An important element of support was their greater access to foreign aid, with their German and Italian allies helping considerably. In 1937, the Nationalists, under the leadership of Francisco Franco began to establish their dominance. Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza. ![]()
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