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He died several days later. [35][36] October 28, 1905. Stuart Lathrop Pierson. Delta Kappa Epsilon. Kenyon College. Gambier, Ohio. Hit by train. Pierson was killed while being initiated into a fraternity. He was sent to a railroad track as part of a hazing ceremony, and killed by an unscheduled train.
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic , and consisted of various socialist , communist , separatist , anarchist , and ...
At the end of the Spanish Civil War the executions of the "enemies of the state" continued (some 50,000 people were killed), [3]: 8 [7]: 405 including the extrajudicial (death squad) executions of members of the Spanish maquis (anti–Francoist guerrillas) and their supporters (los enlaces, "the links"); in the province of Córdoba 220 maquis ...
Francisco Franco Bahamonde[ f ][ g ] (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo. This period in Spanish history, from the ...
Casualties refer to the November 1936 battle only. 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 ...
July 17, 1936 – July 18, 1936 [ 12 ] Francoist rebels in Melilla, a city in Spanish Morocco, overthrew the Republican government and seized control over the colony. [ 13 ][ 14 ] Nationalist Victory. Siege of the Montaña barracks. July 18, 1936 – July 20, 1936 [ 15 ] Rebels attempted to stage a coup in Madrid.
NKVD General Pavel Sudoplatov, an ethnic Ukrainian who was later the main handler for his Spanish Civil War colleagues Nahum Eitingon and Ramón Mercader's during the assassination of Leon Trotsky, later recalled, "From 1936 to 1939 there were two life-and-death struggles in Spain, both of them civil wars. One pitted nationalist forces let by ...
The background of the Spanish Civil War dates back to the end of the 19th century, when the owners of large estates, called latifundios, held most of the power in a land-based oligarchy. The landowners' power was unsuccessfully challenged by the industrial and merchant sectors. In 1868 popular uprisings led to the overthrow of Queen Isabella II ...