Kingdom of Spain (1904–1931) Spanish Republic (1931–1936) Nationalist Spain (1936–1937)
Service/branch
Spanish Army
Years of service
1904–1932 1933–1937
Rank
Brigadier General
Commands held
Military Governor of Navarre Commander of the Army of the North
Battles/wars
Rif War Spanish Civil War
Awards
Military Medal
Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand
Emilio Mola y Vidal (9 July 1887 – 3 June 1937) was one of the three leaders of the Nationalist coup of July 1936 that started the Spanish Civil War.
After the death of Sanjurjo on 20 July 1936, Mola commanded the Nationalists in the north of Spain, while Franco operated in the south. Attempting to take Madrid with his four columns, Mola praised local Nationalist sympathizers within the city as a "fifth column", possibly the first use of that phrase. He died in an air crash in bad weather, leaving Franco as the pre-eminent Nationalist leader for the rest of the war. Sabotage, though suspected, has never been proven.
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Many scholars have no doubt about Mola's role and refer to "fifth column" as "a term coined in 1936 by General EmilioMola", though they acknowledge that...
Balearic islands. EmilioMola was moved from leading the army of Africa to the military commander of Pamplona in Navarre. This allowed Mola to direct the...
Franco to send troops to go north and to be led by General EmilioMola. On 31 March 1937, Mola attacked the province of Biscay, which included the bombing...
group of generals of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces, with General EmilioMola as the primary planner and leader and General José Sanjurjo as a figurehead...
of panicking civilians from the occupied areas fled towards Bilbao. EmilioMola was in command of the start of this campaign on March 31, 1937, but he...
During the opening stages of the civil war RE was close to General EmilioMola, who consulted regularly with the group's leadership. The assassination...
electoral funds to the initial leader of the Nationalist faction, General EmilioMola. Subsequently, many members of CEDA's youth movement, Juventudes de Acción...
Nationalist troops did not manage to cross the mountain passes. General EmilioMola, the director of the military coup that sought to end the Popular Front...
and red beret under the fake name "Juan López". However, rebel general EmilioMola, mastermind behind the putschist plot, was warned of the move and had...
attack the mainland, while another force from the north under General EmilioMola moved south from Navarre. Military units were also mobilised elsewhere...
when Francoist authorities renamed the village in honour of General EmilioMola, who died in a plane crash near Alcocero on 3 June 1937. Municipal Register...
who tried to arrange a truce with the insurgent General EmilioMola by telephone, but Mola refused the offer and Martinez Barrio was ousted by José Giral...
chaos" became pretexts for a coup. Franco himself along with General EmilioMola had stirred an anti-Communist campaign in Morocco. On 23 February, Franco...
including President Miguel Cabanellas, Head of State Francisco Franco, EmilioMola, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, attended the meeting and were all candidates...
Primo de Rivera Alfredo Kindelán José Sanjurjo Juan Yagüe Leopoldo Saro EmilioMola Philippe Pétain Hubert Lyautey M. Ahmed er Raisuni (POW) Abd el-Krim ...
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