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executed. Moscardó asked to speak to his son and his son asked what he should do. "Commend your soul to God," he told his son, "and die like a patriot, shouting,'¡Viva Cristo Rey!' and '¡Viva España!' The Alcázar does not surrender." "That," answered his son, "I can do." Luis was immediately shot, contrary to the rumour that he was not in fact shot until a month later "in reprisal for an air raid".
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propaganda value of the Alcázar was more important and ordered the Army of Africa to relieve it. Indeed, when Franco arrived at the Alcázar one day after its relief, he was greeted by Moscardó, who said: "No further news in the Alcázar, my General. I give it to you destroyed, but with its honour preserved". Two days after the relief of the Alcázar, Franco was proclaimed
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Franco's decision to relieve the defenders of the Alcázar was a controversial one at the time. Many of his advisers thought that he should have kept up the advance towards Madrid because the besiegers of the Alcázar would have been recalled to Madrid for its defense. However, Franco believed that the
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The position of the Republicans in Toledo grew desperate and on the morning of September 27, they made a final assault on the Alcázar. The attack was repulsed and shortly after the Nationalists moved from Bargas to end the siege. After the arrival of the main Nationalist force, most of the Republican
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On August 14, the Republicans changed tactics after they felt the defences on the northern side of the Alcázar had been sufficiently reduced. Over the next five weeks, the Republicans attacked the House of the Military Government on eleven occasions but were turned back each time by the Nationalists.
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Apart from a small-arms factory, Toledo was a city of no military value to either side; the Nationalist forces there were small, isolated, badly equipped and in no condition to conduct offensive operations. The Republican government believed that since the garrison was only 64 kilometres (40 mi)
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while others had fled from the advancing Republican militias. The women were given no role in the defence of the Alcázar; they were not even allowed to cook or nurse the wounded. However, their presence in the Alcázar provided the men with the moral courage to continue the defence. The civilians were
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Colonel Moscardó was called on the telephone by the chief of the Worker's Militia, Commissar Cándido Cabello, on the morning of July 23 in Toledo and told that if the Alcázar were not surrendered within ten minutes, Moscardó's 24-year-old son, Luis, who had been captured earlier in the day, would be
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The symbolic value of the Alcázar grew as weeks went by, and the Republicans threw badly needed men, artillery and weapons into the fortress capture (instead of using them to confront Franco's northern advance through western Spain). The press was invited by the Republican government to witness the
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The Chilean Ambassador to Spain, José Ramón Gutiérrez, having heard that the previous attempts for surrender failed, went on September 12 to secure the surrender of the Alcázar. He was unable to contact Moscardó because the telephone wires had been damaged the previous night from grenades thrown by
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At 5 a.m. on September 23, the Republicans assaulted the northern breaches of the Alcázar and surprised the defenders by lobbing grenades and dynamite. The Nationalists on that side were driven into the courtyard of the Alcázar, but reserves arrived from elsewhere in the building to drive back the
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The bombardment of the outlying buildings had been so great that communication between them and the Alcázar had become impossible. A withdrawal from the buildings was ordered and by the night of September 21, the garrisons were concentrated in what remained of the Alcázar. The Republicans attacked
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The first sign of an advancing Nationalist column was on August 22 when a plane sent by Franco airlifted a trunk of food into the Alcázar along with a message to the defenders that the Army of Africa was on its way to relieve the garrison. By September 26, the Nationalist columns had reached the
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of the province to concentrate in the city of Toledo. During July 19 and 20, various attempts were made by the War Ministry of the Republican government to obtain the munitions in the arms factory at Toledo. Each time, Colonel Moscardó refused and was threatened that a force from
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kept safe from Republican attacks, the five civilians that died were due to natural causes. There were two births during the siege. One of the babies born, who eventually became an officer in the Spanish military, was expelled from the Army in the late 1970s for joining the
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himself detonated the mine, but it would not be until September 29 that the press entered the Alcázar, this time by the invitation of the Nationalists, turning the whole affair into a huge propaganda victory for the Nationalists, undermining the Republican morale.
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The story of the siege was very interesting for foreign supporters of Franco, who would read the several books published in foreign languages, and would strive for meeting Moscardó when visiting wartime Spain. In December 1936 a delegation of Romanian
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to the defenders of the Alcázar. That evening, Rojo met with Moscardó to discuss the evacuation of the women and children. The women unanimously replied that they would never surrender and if need be would take up arms for the defence of the Alcázar.
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By July 22, the Republicans controlled most of Toledo and sought the surrender of the Alcázar by artillery bombardment. For the duration of the siege, the Nationalists engaged in a passive defence, only returning fire when an attack was imminent.
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A proclamation declaring a "State of War" was read by Captain Emilio Vela-Hidalgo, Captain of Cavalry (and nephew of the Republican General Manuel Cardenal Dominicis), at the Military Academy at 7 a.m. in the Zocodover, the main plaza of
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The Republican troops sent from Madrid first arrived at the Hospital of Tavera on the outskirts of Toledo but redirected their attack towards the Arms Factory upon receiving heavy fire from the hospital. A detachment of 200
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for his bravery in the breach. Had the Republicans captured the House of the Military Government, it would have enabled them to mass a large number of troops only 37 metres (40 yd) away from the Alcázar.
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A fresh assault was mounted later in the morning, this time led by a tank. Wave after wave of Republican soldiers attacked the breaches, but after 45 minutes the attack had ground to a halt and fell back.
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From August 16 the Republicans had been digging two mines towards the southwest tower of the Alcázar. On the morning of September 18, explosives in the mines were detonated by
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Vázquez Camarassa, a Madrid preacher with left-wing views, was sent to the Alcázar during the morning of September 11, performed the necessary functions and issued a
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Approximately 670 civilians (five hundred women and 50 children) lived in the Alcázar for the duration of the siege. Many of these were the family members of the
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the outlying buildings on the morning of September 22, but progress was slow because they did not realize that the buildings had been abandoned.
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southwest of Madrid and would not be receiving any immediate help from the other Nationalist forces, it would be an easy propaganda victory.
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presented a ceremonial sword to the survivors of the siege and announced the alliance of their movement with the Spanish Nationalists.
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loaded trucks with ammunition from the factory and sent it to the Alcázar before evacuating and destroying the factory.
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was held by a variety of military forces in favour of the Nationalist uprising. Militias of the parties in the
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was stationed at the Arms Factory and negotiations with the Republicans ensued. During these talks, the
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The Republican forces dispatched to Toledo consisted of approximately 8,000 men of the militias of the
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Beevor, Antony. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Hachette UK, 2012, p.122
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explosion of the mines and storming of the Alcázar on September 18, when the Prime minister
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began their siege on July 21, 1936. The siege ended on September 27 with the arrival of the
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by Gilbert Frankau, in which one of the characters and his wife are caught up in the siege.
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After the war, Franco posthumously awarded Guillermo Juárez de María y Esperanza, with the
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Luchando por Franco: Voluntarios europeos al servicio de la España fascista, 1936–1939
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the Republican militias and he was unwilling to use other methods of communication.
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Nationalist victory in Toledo (1936) at the opening stages of the Spanish Civil War
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Additionally, ten prisoners captured during sorties in Toledo and about 100-200
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Boletin de GEFREMA - Grupo de estudios del Frente de Madrid no.14 November 2008
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The Siege of the Alcázar: A History of the Siege of the Toledo Alcázar, 1936
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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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Great Sieges in World History: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century
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The siege was the basis for the prize-winning 1940 Italian war film,
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Eby, Cecil D. The Siege of the Alcazar. Random House, 1965, p.187
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Participants in the Nationalist uprising were the 800 men of the
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The Nationalists saw the Alcázar as a representation of the
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The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, revolution & revenge.
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village of Bargas, four miles (6 km) north of Toledo.
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Moscardó diary excerpt and image of the Alcázar collapsing
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The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939.
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the two children born during the siege and to also say
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Phases of the destruction of the Alcázar over September
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Index

Spanish Civil War

Toledo
Spain
Republicans
Confederal militias
Antifascist Worker and Peasant Militias
Fifth Regiment
Francoist Spain
Nationalists
Spain
José Riquelme
Spain
Spain
Ricardo Burillo
Spain
Luis Barceló
WIA
Salvador Sediles
Juan Modesto
Enrique Líster
Francoist Spain
José Enrique Varela
Francoist Spain
José Moscardó Ituarte
Francoist Spain
Francoist Spain
Francoist Spain
WIA
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