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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 ...
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]
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 ]
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 ...
The man to lead the Carlist rising, general Sanjurjo, died in aviation accident in July 1936. Two military leaders of JTM, Muslera and Baselga , [ 88 ] were captured during failed coup in San Sebastián and executed soon afterwards.
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 ...
Nosotros thought that the new Spanish Republic was being "held hostage" by men who had been part of the ruling class under the Kingdom of Spain, including conservative politicians such as Prime Minister Niceto Alcalá-Zamora and Interior Minister Miguel Maura, and reactionary military officers such as Gonzalo Queipo de Llano of the Carabineros and José Sanjurjo of the Civil Guard.
But after contributing to the prevention of an attempted coup by General José Sanjurjo, the CNT experienced a resurgence in support and anarchist deportees were permitted to return to Spain. Due to the slow, bureaucratic implementation of land reform and the regulation of trade unions by the new labour laws, workers' and peasants ...