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Battle of Badajoz (1936)

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110: 98: 994:, now the last remaining Republican outpost on the Portuguese border, isolated from the Republic. Franco personally supervised the operation against Mérida and on the evening of August 10, received Yagüe in his headquarters to discuss the capture of Badajoz and the next objectives. He wanted to knock out the city to unify the two sections of the rebel zone and leave the left flank of the advancing columns covered by the Portuguese border. 904: 1172:, where machine-guns were set up on the barriers around the ring. The screams of the dying could be heard many streets away. Murder and mass rape flared unchecked for several days, and Yagüe's failure to call a halt to the killings earned him the nickname, "The Butcher of Badajoz". Foreign correspondents, depending on their political sympathies, reported between an estimated 1,800 and 4,000 civilian deaths. 1187:(Portuguese), and Marcel Dany and René Bru (French); there are also photographs that survive of the massacre. Today, most historians recognize that Yagüe killed thousands of militiamen and civilians after the fall of the city and burned the corpses because he did not want to leave enemies, either soldiers or civilians, to the rear of his army. In fact, Yagüe was quoted to have said the following to 1207:
The massacre at Badajoz was not a unique case in the march of Yagüe's column from Seville to Badajoz. In every city conquered by Yagüe's men, many civilians were killed. Over six thousand people were killed in the province of Badajoz alone (including the city of Badajoz itself). Most of the victims
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Before the attack, Badajoz was continuously bombarded by Nationalist artillery and bombers for three days. The rebels, coming from the East, launched their attack on the morning of August 14, after shelling the town again. Colonel Puigdendolas, along with the Mayor and other members of the defence
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Inside the ancient fortress-city, large sections of whose walls had been demolished some years before the war,. The border with Portugal was on the west side of the city. Rebels were coming from the East. The city had been flooded with refugees and the atmosphere in the city was one of doom-laden
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would prove able to sweep prepared defences held by superior enemy forces, but often suffered heavy losses of its best troops. By year's end, many of the Spanish Foreign Legion lay dead, scattered along a trail of walled towns stretching from Seville to the outskirts of Madrid.
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Once inside the ramparts the military drove the Republican militia before them, knifing and bayoneting their way toward the city centre, including killing those who had thrown down their weapons and had their hands up.
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It has been widely reported that the Nationalists sacked Badajoz and killed thousands of prisoners and civilians, culminating in an infamous round of executions in the town's
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won the gate, and the Nationalists overtook the defenders, pouring through the breach and killing them in hand-to-hand combat. But, the cost was appalling: the attacking 16th
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Republican (red) and Nationalist (blue) controlled areas, September 1936. Green areas represent the Nationalist territorial gains since the beginning of the war.
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anticipation. The Nationalists had been successful since the beginning of their advance. Moreover, on August 6, when the Nationalist army approached, a body of
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victory, however at a significant cost in time and troops. After several days of shelling and bombardment, Nationalists stormed the fortified border city of
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had lost 76 out of 90 officers and men (other sources cite 20 dead, 22 wounded and 2 missing). All of the unit's officers fell in the attack excepting the
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transporting the remaining and the heaviest gear. By August 1, General Franco was able to order a sweep north to link up his forces assembled at
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with me as my column advanced, racing against time? Was I expected to turn them loose in my rear and let them make Badajoz
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The battle contributed several days to the delay which allowed the government to organize its defenses around Madrid.
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were journeymen and farmers, and the wholesale massacre of the populace later became known to the world as Franco's
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The Battle of Badajoz followed patterns that continued throughout much of the summer: Republican militia seized the
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of the Spanish Foreign Legion. Ignoring their losses, the Legionnaires pressed on. A charge led by
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and linking the northern and southern zones of Nationalist control (although actual contact with
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On the south side of the city, Nationalist units stormed the walls easily. The Moroccan
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La columna de la muerte. El avance del ejército franquista de Sevilla a Badajoz. 2003.
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detachments, pausing to bombard and capture walled frontier towns. By August 10, when
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most of them, and ensured that the Republican Navy did not cross the way of the
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died in a plane crash on the 20th of July, only three days into the war.
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The only place where the attack encountered difficulties was around
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raged past nightfall. The Legionnaires later captured 43 wounded
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committee, slipped out of the city at about 9:00 am and fled to
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There are various eyewitness accounts and other reports of the
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The fall of Badajoz tore from the Republic the large region of
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took care of the Moroccan part. His first move had been to get
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air support to transport almost 10,000 regular troops of the
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Index

Spanish Civil War
Badajoz
Extremadura
Spain
Massacre of Badajoz
Spain
Spanish Republic
Francoist Spain
Nationalist rebels
Ildefonso Puigdendolas
Juan Yagüe
Carlos Asensio
Antonio Castejón
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Spanish Civil War
Background
List of battles
July 1936 uprising
Revolution
Melilla
Seville
1st Barcelona
Cuartel de la Montaña
Gijón
Oviedo
Cuartel de Loyola
1936
German intervention

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