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Catalonia Offensive
Part of the Spanish Civil War

Map of Spain in November 1938, after the end of the Battle of the Ebro and immediately before the start of the Catalonia Offensive. Republican territory is in red, and Nationalist territory is blue.
Date23 December 1938 – 10 February 1939
Location
Northeastern Spain
Result Nationalist victory
Belligerents

Second Spanish Republic Republicans

  • Catalonia Generalitat of Catalonia
  • Francoist Spain Nationalists
  • Fascist Italy CTV
  • Nazi Germany Condor Legion
Commanders and leaders
  • Second Spanish Republic Hernández Saravia
  • Second Spanish Republic Enrique Jurado
  • Second Spanish Republic Vicente Rojo Lluch
  • Second Spanish Republic Juan Perea Capulino
  • Second Spanish Republic Juan Guilloto León
  • Second Spanish Republic Enrique Líster
  • Spain Francisco Franco
  • Spain Fidel Dávila Arrondo
  • Spain Juan Yagüe
  • Spain Rafael García Valiño
  • Francoist Spain José Moscardó Ituarte
  • Fascist Italy Gastone Gambara
Strength
Thomas: 300,000[1]
Beevor: 220,000[2]
Jackson: 90,000[3]
Thomas: 360 artillery pieces[4]
Beevor: 250 artillery pieces[2]
Thomas: 200 tanks and armoured cars[4]
Beevor: 40 tanks and armoured cars[2]
Thomas: 80 aircraft[4]
Beevor: 106 aircraft[5]
Jackson: 350,000[3]
Beevor: 340,000[6]
Thomas: 300,000[1]
Beevor: 1,400 artillery pieces[6]
Thomas: 565 artillery pieces[1]
300 tanks[6]
500 aircraft[7]
Casualties and losses
? dead
10,000 wounded
60,000 captured[8]
220,000 disarmed in France[9]
? dead
? wounded
? captured

The Catalonia Offensive (Catalan: Ofensiva de Catalunya, Spanish: Ofensiva de Cataluña) was part of the Spanish Civil War. The Nationalist Army started the offensive on 23 December 1938 and rapidly conquered Republican-held Catalonia with Barcelona (the Republic's capital city from October 1937).[10] Barcelona was captured on 26 January 1939. The Republican government headed for the French border. Thousands of people fleeing the Nationalists also crossed the frontier in the following month, to be placed in internment camps. Franco closed the border with France by 10 February 1939.

  1. ^ a b c Thomas 2001, p. 844.
  2. ^ a b c Beevor 2006, p. 373.
  3. ^ a b Jackson 1967, p. 463.
  4. ^ a b c Thomas 2001, p. 845.
  5. ^ Beevor 2006, p. 368.
  6. ^ a b c Beevor 2006, p. 372.
  7. ^ Beevor 2006, p. 372; Thomas 2001, p. 844.
  8. ^ Beevor 2006, p. 382.
  9. ^ Thomas 2001, p. 877.
  10. ^ Graham 2005, p. 102.

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