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Both high commands were now in heated trains near the battlefield and directing their troops in the final part of the battle. Slowly but surely, the Nationalists advanced, and the La Muela heights fell to them. The Republican forces launched fierce counterattacks on 25 January and the next two days,
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Just over a year later, the Republicans, in one of their last acts of the war, killed Rey d'Harcourt and the bishop, along with 41 other prisoners in February 1939. After Rey d'Harcourt's surrender, the civilian population of Teruel had been evacuated, and the Republicans became the besieged and the
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The red line in the map shows the front at the beginning of the battle. The purple line shows the front on December 20, with Teruel surrounded by the Republicans. The green line shows the front at the end of the battle. La Muela, Teruel's Tooth, is west of the town. Click on the map to get a larger
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in 1938, the defenders of the convent were dead. The Civil Governor's Building fell on January 3, but Rey d'Harcourt fought on. The attackers and the defenders were on different stories of the building and fired at each other through holes in the floors. The defenders now had no water, few medical
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and the railway station, but they could not hold their gains in the town. Then, the weather actually turned for the worse, with the start of a four-day blizzard in which 120 cm of snow fell and temperatures of -18 Â°C occurred. The fighting ground to a halt as guns and machines froze, and
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Franco cancelled the Guadalajara offensive on December 23, but the relief force could not begin its attack until December 29. Franco could only send messages to Rey d'Harcourt to hold out at all costs. In the meantime, the Republicans pressed home their attack in atrocious weather. The Nationalist
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bombardment while snow fell on December 15, 1937. Lister and his fellow commander, Colonel Enrique Fernández Heredia, moved to surround the town. They immediately gained a position on the heights of La Muela, and by evening, they encircled the city. Rey d'Harcourt pulled his defences into the town
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Casualties from the Battle of Teruel are difficult to estimate. The Nationalist relief force lost about 14,000 dead, 16,000 wounded and 17,000 sick. In the original Teruel defensive force, including the garrison, casualties were about 9,500, nearly all of whom were dead or captured, which gives a
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After Rey d'Harcourt's surrender, the Nationalist buildup began to tell on the Republican forces. With the weather clearing, the Nationalists started a new advance on 17 January 1938. Two days later, the Republican leadership finally gave up its scruples about the Battle of Teruel being an
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covering the war from the Nationalist side. Evidently, he was already under Moscow's orders in Spain but wrote glowing reports about Franco. Near Teruel in December 1937, a shell hit an automobile in which Philby and three other journalists (Bradish Johnson, Eddie Neil and
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was the Nationalist commander at Teruel when the battle began. The Teruel salient had a Nationalist defending force of about 9,500 men, including civilians. After the attack began, Rey d'Harcourt eventually consolidated his remaining defenders into a
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all-Spanish operation and ordered the International Brigades to join the struggle. Many of the units had been in the area but in reserve. Celebrities and politicians meanwhile entertained and visited the units. The US communist-sympathising singer
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on March 7, 1938. The Republic had withdrawn its best troops to replenish them after the loss of Teruel on February 22, and the Republicans, still reeling from the heavy losses at Teruel, offered little resistance. The Nationalists rolled through
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was surrounded but eventually broke out to escape. He always claimed that Lister and other communist commanders had left him to his fate in the hope that he would be killed or captured. The Nationalists finally recaptured Teruel on 22 February.
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The final battle began on 18 February. Aranda and YagĂĽe cut off the town from the north and then surrounded it, as the Republicans had accomplished in December. On 20 February, Teruel was cut off from the former Republican capital in
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supplies and little food. Their defences were piles of ruins, but they continued to hold out. The Nationalist advances stalled because of the weather, and finally, on 8 January Rey d'Harcourt surrendered with Anselmo Polanco, the
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could not replace the airplanes and arms that it had lost at the Battle of Teruel. On the other hand, the Nationalists concentrated the bulk of their forces in the east and prepared to drive through Aragon into
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between December 1937 and February 1938, during the worst Spanish winter in 20 years. The battle was one of the bloodiest actions of the war, with the city changing hands several times by first falling to the
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total of 56,500 casualties for the Nationalists. The Republicans lost a large number of prisoners. Round figures would be Nationalists 57,000 and Republicans 60,000, for a total of about 110,000.
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highway runs up a slight gradient to a pancake-flat plain around the village of Concud, about 3 mi (4.8 km) away. A key position was the ridge to the west of the town known as
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Mathews, Hemingway, Robeson and the British politicians have been mentioned previously, and the battle certainly attracted many other such celebrities. One of them was the Soviet spy
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to defend the town. Teruel's Nationalist garrison numbered between 2,000 and 6,000 according to various estimates. The garrison numbered probably about 4,000, half of them civilians.
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sector on 18 December and so the Republicans wanted to divert the Nationalists away from the Madrid area. The Republic, therefore, started the battle on 15 December.
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Franco continued to pour in men and machines, and the tide of the battle slowly started to turn. However, the Republicans pressed home their siege, and by
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and Alfambra rivers. It is surrounded by a geological potpourri of scragged gorges, tooth-shaped peaks and twisted ridge fingers. West of the town, the
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territory inserted into Republican Spain, and its capture would shorten the lines of communication between central Republican Spain and
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on the coast. Teruel was surrounded on three sides by Republican Spain. In addition, Teruel was a symbol of Nationalist power on the
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Province and reached the sea. By April 19, 1938, they controlled 60 km of coastline and so divided the Republic into two.
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from their workers. Lastly, Republican intelligence learned that Franco intended to start a major offensive against
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The Nationalists found 10,000 Republican corpses in Teruel after the battle was over.
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Lister's Republican division attacked Teruel without any preliminary aerial or
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counterattack began on schedule on December 29, with the experienced Generals
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against Teruel to be an all-Spanish operation without the assistance of the
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regained Teruel. This battle became the military turning point of the war.
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The Battle of Teruel exhausted the resources of the Republican Army. The
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but gains were temporary. Finally, on 7 February, the Nationalists
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and so Saravia chose Lister's division to lead the first assault.
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With his superiority in men and material, the Nationalist leader
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Spain in 1937 just before the Battle of Teruel. Note the Teruel
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sang for them on Christmas Eve with a repertoire that included
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and, by December 17, had given up trying to keep a foothold on
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because of its position protruding into Republican territory.
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By December 21, the Republican forces were in the town.
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Index

Teruel Offensive
Spanish Civil War

Teruel
Aragon
Second Spanish Republic
Spanish Republic
Spain
Nationalist Spain
Second Spanish Republic
Juan Hernández Saravia
Second Spanish Republic
Enrique Fernández Heredia
Second Spanish Republic
Juan Ibarrola
Second Spanish Republic
Vicente Rojo Lluch
Second Spanish Republic
Enrique LĂ­ster
Second Spanish Republic
El Campesino
Second Spanish Republic
Karol Ĺšwierczewski
Spain
Francisco Franco
Spain
Antonio Aranda
Spain
José Enrique Varela
Spain

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