[45] Manuel Goded Llopis was sacked as Inspector General and made general of the Balearic islands; Emilio Mola was moved from head of the Army of Africa to military commander of Pamplona in Navarre.[45] However, this allowed Mola to direct the mainland uprising. General José Sanjurjo became...
Franco however joined the Spanish Army as a cadet in the Toledo Infantry Academy in 1907, graduating in 1910. He would go on to have a successful military career in Morocco and advanced through the ranks at a very young age. He served in the Rif War and was in 1926 promoted General at...
Moctezuma had been made hostage by Cortés, and Pizarro began his encounter with the Incas by treacherously seizing the Inca Atahuallpa, who had arrived without military preparations, despite leaving a large army nearby. Unlike Moctezuma, Atahuallpa did not have any intelligence about the Spanish ...
101] Hugh Thomas makes the same claim, stating at "there was no sign that anyone [at the congress] realised that there was a danger of fascism; and no agreement, in consequence, on the arming of militias, much less the organisation of a revolutionary army as suggested by Juan Garcia ...
Daily life at Montana State College was upended when the flu broke out. Campus closed just a few weeks into the fall term, but members of the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) stayed at theBozeman, Montana, campusamid the outbreak. One member of the SATC kept a diary of the events, ...
The Comando Truppe Volontarie (CTV) arrived in Spain from Italy to support the rebel army during the Civil War. Among its ranks was a cartography unit in charge of developing valuable graphic materials which would serve as support for military strategies. The importance of the work this ...
mobility. After this the traditional structure of the republican army was transformed, and while the creoles retained military and political control, the pardos (who in Venezuela were the mass of the population) had greater opportunities for advance to higher ranks and offices. To this extent ...
Firstly, we're adding a wealth of infantry types to the game. Players should expect to encounter everything from Republican militia troops to Franco's professional Army of Africa colonial troops to standard Republican Mixed Brigades (Brigada Mixta) to various International Brigade formations and ...
the position of the rebels became so desperate that in August 1585 Elizabeth sent over an army of 6,000 under the command ofRobert Dudley, earl of Leicester. Reluctantly, Philip decided on war against England as the only way of exterminating heresy anddisciplininghis subjects in the Netherlands...
Where Don Quixote saw and attacked an advancing army, Sancho saw only a herd of sheep; what Sancho perceived as windmills were menacing giants to the questing knight-errant. The constant interaction of these rarely compatible attitudes revealed the novel’s potential for philosophical commentary on...