Siege: 8 November 1936 – 28 March 1939 Nationalist assault: 8 November 1936 – early December 1936
Location
Madrid, Spain
Result
Nationalist victory
Republicans win the battle in 1936
City surrenders to Nationalists in 1939
Belligerents
Spanish Republic Supported by: Soviet Union International Brigades
Nationalist Spain Supported by: Germany Italy
Commanders and leaders
Manuel Azaña
José Miaja
Vicente Rojo Lluch
Enrique Líster
Adolfo Prada
Carlos Romero
José María Galán
Segismundo Casado
Luis Barceló
Francisco Galán
Antonio Ortega
Antonio Escobar
Hans Beimler †
Pavol Lukács
Cipriano Mera
José B. Durruti †
Francisco Franco
Emilio Mola
José Enrique Varela
José Moscardó Ituarte
Mohamed Meziane
Juan Yagüe
Carlos A. Cabanillas
Rolando de Tella
Antonio Castejón
Francisco A. Delgado
Hugo Sperrle
Strength
42,000 50 tanks 70 guns
20,000 30 tanks 120 aircraft[1]
Casualties and losses
~5,000 dead or wounded (including civilians)
~5,000 dead or wounded
Casualties refer to the November 1936 battle only
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Spanish Civil War
Background
List of battles
July 1936 uprising
Melilla
Seville
1st Barcelona
Cuartel de la Montaña
Gijón
Oviedo
Cuartel de Loyola
1936
German intervention
Guadarrama
Andalusia
Alcázar
Extremadura
Convoy de la Victoria
Almendralejo
Sigüenza
1st Mérida
Badajoz
Majorca
Sierra Guadalupe
Córdoba
Gipuzkoa
Irún
Monte Pelado
Talavera
Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza
Guinea
Cerro Muriano
Cape Spartel
Seseña
Madrid
Ciudad Universitaria
1st Corunna Road
Villarreal
Ursula
Aceituna
Lopera
2nd Corunna Road
1937
3rd Corunna Road
Málaga
Jarama
Cape Machichaco
Guadalajara
Pozoblanco
War in the North
Cantabrian Sea
Biscay
Durango
Guernica
Bilbao
Santander
Asturias
El Mazuco
Jaén
2nd Barcelona
Deutschland
Almería
Segovia
Huesca
Albarracín
Brunete
Zaragoza
1st Belchite
Cape Cherchell
Sabiñánigo
1st Lérida
Teruel
1938
Valladolid
Alfambra
Cape Palos
Aragon
2nd Belchite
3rd Barcelona
Caspe
2nd Lérida
1st Gandesa
Segre
Levante
Balaguer
Los Blázquez
Alicante
Granollers
Bielsa
2nd Mérida
Ebro
2nd Gandesa
Cantabria
Cabra
Sant Vicenç de Calders
1939
Catalonia
Valsequillo
Xàtiva
La Garriga
Minorca
Cartagena
Final offensive
The siege of Madrid was a two-and-a-half-year siege of the Republican-controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the Nationalist armies, under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The city, besieged from October 1936, fell to the Nationalist armies on 28 March 1939. The Battle of Madrid in November 1936 saw the most intense fighting in and around the city when the Nationalists made their most determined attempt to take the Republican capital.
The highest military awards of the Spanish Republic, the Laureate Plate of Madrid (Spanish: Placa Laureada de Madrid), and the Madrid Distinction (Spanish: Distintivo de Madrid),[2] established by the Republican government to reward courage,[3] were named after the capital of Spain because the city symbolised valour and Republican resistance during the long siege throughout the war.[4]
^Thomas 1961, p. 515.
^Legislacíón sobre la Placa Laureada de Madrid y Distintivo de Madrid, Revista de Historia Militar, ISSN 0482-5748, Nº Extra 2, 2011, pp. 299-316
^Luis Grávalos & José Luis Calvo, Condecoraciones Militares Españolas, Editorial San Martin, 1988, ISBN 8471402661
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