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1977:. There was no resistance, and in one day they captured 2,000 km of land and 30,000 prisoners. The junta ordered its soldiers not to resist the Nationalist advance, and the Republican soldiers threw away their weapons and abandoned the front. By 27 March, the Nationalists were advancing on all fronts without resistance. Solchaga's Navarra Corps, Gambara's CTV and Garcia Valiño's Army of Maestrazgo advanced from Toledo. On 28 March, Colonel Prada, commander of the Army of the Centre, surrendered to the Nationalist troops, who occupied Madrid. Casado and the other members of the junta, except Besteiro, fled to Valencia. On 29 March, the Nationalists occupied 172: 161: 212: 195: 345: 289: 278: 261: 250: 229: 137: 334: 323: 312: 301: 149: 1789: 39: 239: 205: 1945:), where the supporters of Casado, backed by elements of a fifth column, had started the uprising against Negrín's government on 4 March, they were defeated by the PCE's 206th Brigade, of the IV Division, led by colonel Joaquín Rodríguez, after a brief battle on 7 March. Nevertheless, on 5 March, the Republican Navy (three cruisers and eight destroyers), led by Admiral Buiza, had fled to Bizerte after a Nationalist aerial bombardment. One Nationalist transport ship, the 271: 222: 2066:
where he died in 1975. Matallana was detained and imprisoned by the Nationalists and died in Madrid in 1956. Besteiro, still at his post in the basement of the Revenue Building at 7 Alcalá Street in Madrid, was arrested by the Nationalists when they entered the city and faced a court martial. Sentenced to 30 years in prison, he died there of an infection that resulted from an injury to his hand in 1940.
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Nationalists occupied Valencia and Gambara's troops entered Alicante, rounding up 15,000 Republican refugees. Italian General Gambara was prepared to permit the evacuation of political refugees, but on 31 March, the Nationalist troops arrived and took over jurisdiction from Gambara. As a result, many refugees committed suicide to avoid capture by the Nationalists. On 31 March, the Nationalists occupied
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but without the Republican Navy, an evacuation was impossible since the French and the British governments refused to organise an evacuation. Only a minority, those who had money to pay for passage, were evacuated by British ships (between 650 and more than 3,500, Casado among them. On 30 March, the
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in February 1939, the military situation of the Republic was hopeless. Despite still having the capital city and approximately 30% of Spanish territory, it had lost 220,000 soldiers, the second most populated city in the country and the industrial resources of Catalonia. Furthermore, on 27 February,
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and militants. Ironically, Casado's justification for the coup was that Negrín and the PCE wanted to carry out a communist takeover, an identical justification to that of the Nationalist uprising, which began the Civil War, but in fact, he rose against the government because he wanted to negotiate
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fighters), little artillery and few automatic weapons. Many soldiers were unarmed (in December 1938, the Republican army had only 225,000 rifles), and lacked shoes and overcoats. In Madrid, there was food for only two months and no water, heating, medicine or surgical dressings. On the other hand,
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Casado remained in exile in Venezuela until he returned to Spain in 1961. Cipriano Mera fled to Oran and Casablanca, but he was extradited to Spain in February 1942. In 1943, he was condemned to death, a sentence that was changed for 30 years in prison; he was set free in 1946 and fled to France,
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After the defeat of Barceló's troops, the council tried to start peace negotiations with Franco, hoping to achieve a guarantee against political reprisals. On 12 March, the council proposed a peace deal with a guarantee against reprisals and a period of 25 days to allow anyone who wanted to leave
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The Nationalists arrested hundreds of thousands of Republican soldiers and civilians, with 150,000 soldiers captured in the final offensive, and herded them into makeshift concentration camps. There were between 367,000 and 500,000 prisoners in 1939. In the first years after the war, 50,000
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peace and believed that removing Negrín and the communists was a precondition to negotiations with Franco. In addition to other assurances, the British government said that Franco would guarantee the lives of the Republicans. Casado had said to the commander of the
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Spain to do so. On 16 March, Franco answered that he would only accept an unconditional surrender. On 23 March, the council sent two negotiators to Burgos (Colonel Antonio Garijo and Major Leopoldo Ortega), and the Nationalists told them that on 25 March, the
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had to be surrendered and by 27 March, the Republican troops had to raise the white flag. Nevertheless, on 25 March, the Republicans did not surrender their Air Force because of bad weather and Franco then broke off negotiations with the junta.
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against the Negrín government to start peace negotiations with the Nationalists, believing that the government was too subordinate to the communists. Colonel José Cendaño, a
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agent in the Republican army, promised him that Franco would guarantee the lives of the Republican officers who had committed no crimes. Most noncommunist elements of the
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on 6 March to avoid capture by the supporters of Casado (Casado wanted to arrest the government and the PCE's leaders and to hand them over to the Nationalists).
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commander of Albacete). The noncommunist elements believed that the communists wanted to control the evacuation harbours and joined the plot against Negrín.
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the Nationalist army had more than a million men at the end of 1938, with 35,000 Moroccans, 32,000 Italians and 5,000 Germans, as well as 600 aircraft.
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and Cartagena. In Ciudad Real, Escobar's Extremadura Army crushed the communist resistance led by the deputy Martínez Cárton. Nevertheless, in
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was dissolved, and by June, both Italian and German troops had left Spain. The Francoist dictatorship remained in power until
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Nevertheless, the army units settled around Madrid and controlled by the PCE (the I corps of the Army of the Centre led by
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was believed to be imminent. Furthermore, Negrín wanted to organise the evacuation of those who were most at risk.
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On 2 March, Negrín announced a number of new appointments in the Central Zone. Colonel Casado and the communists
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believed that it was necessary to initiate peace negotiations. Nevertheless, Negrín, backed by the communist
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was the only major power that had not yet recognized Franco's government. The new regime had signed a
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that further military resistance was impossible. Most of the members of the Republican Army, the
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The Republican army still had between 250,000 and 500,000 men but only 40 aircraft (three
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On 5 March 1939, Colonel Segismundo Casado, supported by General Matallana, the CNT (
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After a failed attempt to negotiate with Casado, Negrín fled to France from the
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On 16 February, the high command of the Republican Army told Prime Minister
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on 31 March, and on 6 April, Franco made public Spain's adherence to the
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Julian Besteiro, one of the leaders of the PSOE, supported Casado's coup.
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in Madrid supported the plot, including one of the leaders of the PSOE,
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List of Spanish Nationalist military equipment of the Spanish Civil War
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List of Spanish Republican military equipment of the Spanish Civil War
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and communist officers were appointed to command the ports of Murcia (
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took place between 26 March and 1 April 1939, towards the end of the
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of the Centre, the communist commanders of the I, II and III Army
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Casado's coup and the last days of the war are the background of
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Casado's coup was supported by the commanders of the other three
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Dissolution of the Second Spanish Republic and beginning of the
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of the Army of the Centre were relieved, the PCE's newspaper
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was closed and Casado ordered massive arrests of communist
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The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
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The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
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as the Nationalists started an offensive towards the
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OUP Oxford. 2965: 2959: 2947:Beevor, Antony 2943: 2928: 2917:Campo del moro 2911: 2908: 2906: 2905: 2896: 2887: 2885:, p. 405. 2875: 2866: 2864:, p. 410. 2851: 2849:, p. 923. 2836: 2827: 2818: 2816:, p. 893. 2806: 2804:, p. 894. 2791: 2779: 2770: 2761: 2737: 2728: 2726:, p. 396. 2709: 2707:, p. 889. 2697: 2695:, p. 890. 2680: 2678:, p. 888. 2665: 2653: 2644: 2642:, p. 887. 2632: 2630:, p. 867. 2620: 2608: 2596: 2584: 2575: 2573:, p. 882. 2563: 2561:, p. 883. 2551: 2549:, p. 881. 2539: 2527: 2518: 2506: 2504:, p. 392. 2494: 2492:, p. 878. 2482: 2470: 2468:, p. 875. 2455: 2453:, p. 873. 2443: 2434: 2425: 2423:, p. 390. 2413: 2401: 2399:, p. 874. 2389: 2380: 2368: 2359: 2350: 2341: 2329: 2327:, p. 869. 2317: 2315:, p. 866. 2302: 2300:, p. 488. 2290: 2288:, p. 868. 2278: 2269: 2260: 2258:, p. 854. 2248: 2246:, p. 391. 2233: 2231:, p. 404. 2218: 2216:, p. 394. 2203: 2201:, p. 884. 2182: 2180:, p. 838. 2167: 2165:, p. 861. 2146: 2137: 2135:, p. 395. 2119: 2117: 2114: 2113: 2112: 2107: 2102: 2095: 2092: 2084:Campo del Moro 2075: 2072: 2060:Franco's death 2031: 2028: 1970: 1967: 1956: 1953: 1927:Main article: 1924: 1921: 1903:Nevertheless, 1868:Levantine Army 1855: 1852: 1775:military junta 1748: 1745: 1725:Manuel Tagüeña 1677: 1674: 1666: 1663: 1634: 1631: 1601: 1598: 1590:United Kingdom 1588:resigned. 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Index

Spanish Civil War

Casado's coup
Francoist regime
Spanish Republic
Nationalist Spain
Condor Legion
Fascist Italy
CTV
Spain
Luis Barceló
Executed
Spain
Francisco Galán
Surrendered
Antonio Ortega
Executed
Segismundo Casado
Manuel Matallana
Surrendered
José Miaja
Cipriano Mera
Francisco Franco
Juan Yagüe
José Solchaga
Rafael García Valiño
Gastone Gambara
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