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The Battle of Brunete (6–25 July 1937), fought 24 kilometres (15 mi) west of Madrid, was a Republican attempt to alleviate the pressure exerted by the Nationalists on the capital and on the north during the Spanish Civil War.
End of Battle of Brunete: Republican forces are thrown back to a position only 5 km from where they started the offensive. The Republic lost around 20,000 men and half their air force, the Nationalists lost around 17,000 men. August 2 Nationalist militia leader Hedilla, sentenced to death for opposing General Franco, is imprisoned in Las Palmas.
Battle of Brunete: July 6, 1937 – July 25, 1937 [105] [106] [107] Republican troops launched an offensive on Brunete to alleviate rebel pressure on Madrid. They gain 24 kilometers of territory during the earlier part of the battle. The Nationalists organized a counterattack and forced the Republicans to retreat. [105] [106] [107] Inconclusive
The Mechanised Division No. 1 Brunete whose name recalled the Battle of Brunete during the Spanish Civil War, was a military formation of the Spanish Army, created in 1943 under the name of Armoured Division No. 1 and later as Armoured Division Brunete. It was disbanded after an Army reorganisation in 2006.
In February 1937, the battalion fought at the Battle of Jarama. In a single day's bloody fighting on 12 February against Moors of the 7th Tabor of Melilla, part of the 8th Regiment of Francisco Franco 's Army of Africa , the British Battalion suffered 275 casualties in No.1, No.3, and No.4 companies – leaving 125 riflemen fit for duty. [ 8 ]
The attack commenced in very late hours of 5 July, and on the evening of 6 July Brunete was re-taken by the Republicans; they claimed to have taken 80 prisoners. [5] The Nationalists re-grouped and indeed moved some units from the Northern Front. Following some 2 weeks of fierce fighting, Brunete was again seized by the rebels on 24 July 1937. [6]
After Guadalajara the 11th Division took part in the Battle of Brunete in the summer 1937. There Líster and his division resisted at the Brunete graveyard until 25 July, but ended up losing the disputed town in the face of the heavy Francoist assaults.
The 24th Division subsequently moved to the Central front and took part in the Battle of Brunete, [5] attacking south of Madrid. Shortly after, it was urgently sent to the Teruel front , where it participated in the arrest of the Francoist counteroffensive on the Albarracín sector, [ 6 ] [ n. 1 ] In July 1937, it also took part in the second ...