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against the republican lines on the Aragon Front. In just a few weeks the Eastern Army was practically destroyed by the attacking "nacionales", additionally losing a great amount of territory. As a consequence, General Pozas was removed from his post, and in his place the colonel Juan Perea Capulino
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assumed command of military forces in Catalonia. The army of Catalonia was dissolved, and its units were integrated into the main Republican army. These units formed the newly-created Ejército del Este, which went on to man the Aragon front. The previous militias were forcefully conscripted into the
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looked to create its own army, independent of the organic structures of the Republican army which operated in the rest of the Republican territory. On 6 December 1936, the Catalan Ministry of Defence declared the creation of the
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Over the course of the summer of 1937, the new army launched various offensives on the Aragon Front, with the primary objective of distracting enemy troops who had been attacking the Republican forces in Madrid and the
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The decree that created the Eastern Army also establishes three new army corps — the 10th, 11th and 12th — into which the militias were integrated. The colonel
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Carlos Engel Masoliver, HISTORIA DE LAS BRIGADAS MIXTAS DEL EJERCITO POPULAR DE LA REPUBL ICA 1936-1939, page 253, 1999. ISBN 9788496170193.
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of the war initially came under the command structure of the unit. Later in the Civil War, the unit operated in
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battles in Barcelona, the Republican government recovered its competencies in the area of defence, and General
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Flores Pintado, Miguel; Gascón Ricao, Antonio; Martínez De Baños Carrillo, Fernando (2005).
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became the new defensive line for the Eastern Army. In May, the unit participated in the
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Salrach i Marés, Josep; Mestre i Campi, Jesús; Termes, Josep (1992).
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After the breakout of the 1936 civil war in Spain, the
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that operated in the eastern part of Spain during the
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Daurella, Neri. Barcelona. 1203: 1201: 1199: 563: 561: 359: 268: 632:(in Spanish). Universidad de Valencia. 557: 228:In March 1938 Franco's army launched a 1221:(in Spanish). San Martín. p. 46. 1111:(in Catalan). Barcelona: Edicions 62. 854: 741: 694: 643: 481:Jefe de Estado Mayor (Chiefs of Staff) 17: 7: 1428:List of Spanish Republican divisions 1217:Martínez Bande, José Manuel (1988). 152:. Republican forces deployed on the 1109:Diccionari d'història de Catalunya 14: 1176:González, Antonio Santos (2016). 509:Eduardo Castillo Blasco, of PSOE; 492:Colonel Aniceto Carvajal Sobrino; 205:. 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Index

Spain
Spain
Spanish Republic

Spanish Republican Army
Field army
Spanish Civil War
Sebastián Pozas
Juan Perea Capulino
Spanish
Spanish Republican Army
Spanish Civil War
Aragon front
Catalonia
Segre river
Catalan government
People's Army of Catalonia
May Days
Sebastián Pozas
Vicente Guarner Vivancos
Northern Front
offensive for Huesca
directed against Zaragoza
Belchite
Biescas Offensive
Alto Gállego
strong offensive
Segre River
Balaguer Offensive
Eastern Region Army Group

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