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Between March and June 1936 Sanjurjo negotiated his leadership of a would-be Carlist-only rising against the Republic. When Niceto Alcalá-Zamora was replaced as President of the Republic by Azaña on 10 May 1936, Sanjurjo joined with Generals Emilio Mola, Francisco Franco and Gonzalo Queipo de Llano in a plot to overthrow the republican ...
José Sanjurjo died in a plane crash on the 20th of July, only three days into the war. Emilio Mola had control of the North, while Francisco Franco took care of the Moroccan part. His first move had been to get German and Italian air support to transport almost 10,000 regular troops of the Spanish Army of Africa to southern Spain across the ...
General José Sanjurjo became the figurehead of the operation and helped to come to an agreement with the Carlists. [32] Mola was the chief planner and second in command. [ 33 ] José Antonio Primo de Rivera was released from prison in mid-March to restrict the Falange . [ 32 ]
Republic declared, 1931. The Spanish military greeted the advent of the Republic with ambivalence. The officer corps was generally made up of conservative monarchists, but following the tumultuous last years of Primo de Rivera’s military dictatorship, which had compromised and discredited the army, most military men preferred to stay clear of politics. [1]
On July 11 Lizarza returned from Lisbon with Sanjurjo's message exhorting Fal and Mola to reach an agreement. [85] On July 13 Fal issued instructions to rise "only in an exclusively Carlist movement", [ 86 ] but frantic efforts on part of the Navarrese bore fruit and on July 15 both Fal and Don Javier, resident in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, agreed to ...
The series's initial point of divergence occurs when Spanish Nationalist leader José Sanjurjo avoids the plane crash that took his life in reality. While Sanjurjo's rule starts on a similar path to that of Francisco Franco, he later aligns Spain with the Axis powers and occupies Gibraltar (which Franco carefully avoided doing in actual history).
After the death of Jose 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 a plane crash in bad ...
After the death of the leader of the military uprising in a plane crash, General José Sanjurjo, [1] General Emilio Mola and General Miguel Cabanellas created a National Defense Junta on July 25, 1936, headed by the latter, which would be in charge of both directing military operations and politically leading the rebel movement. [2]