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The July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona, also known as the Battle of Barcelona, was a mutiny that occurred in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, from 19 to 20 July 1936. The uprising was carried out by the Nationalist faction of the Spanish Army , which was defeated by a popular resistance led by anarchist militias and Republican loyalists .
The famous photograph was taken on 21 July 1936. It shows the 17-year-old Ginestà wearing an army uniform and posing with a rifle on the top of the original Hotel Colón, Plaça de Catalunya 9. The picture was taken during the 1936 military uprising in Barcelona.
The Spanish coup of July 1936 [nb 1] was a military uprising that was intended to overthrow the Spanish Second Republic but precipitated the Spanish Civil War; Nationalists fought against Republicans for control of Spain. The coup was organized for 18 July 1936, although it started the previous day in Spanish Morocco. Instead of resulting in a ...
July 18, 1936 – July 20, 1936 [15] Rebels attempted to stage a coup in Madrid. The majority of the soldiers in the city remained loyal and the rebellion was squashed. [16] [17] Republican Victory July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona: July 19, 1936 [18] Officers of the Spanish army staged a coup in Barcelona.
Cadets take the oath to serve Spain, 1915. 20 years later most of them, usually in senior officer ranks, will have to decide what this means. The breakup of Spanish armed forces of July 1936 was the process of decomposition of the Second Spanish Republic's military and public order formations into two factions: the one which supported the government (loyalists, later called Republicans) and ...
The coup divided regular forces fairly evenly. Out of some 66,000 military actually under arms in July 1936 (including the Army of Africa and the navy, excluding soldiers in service but on leave during the coup) some 52% (34,000) were in the Republican zone and 48% (32,000) in the Nationalist one. [131]
Spanish coup of July 1936: Francisco Franco and other high-ranking officers in the Spanish Army launched a coup against the Second Spanish Republic. The conspirators in the Army of Africa moved to seize control of Spanish Morocco. [34] Military uprising in Melilla: the Spanish rebels seized the radio station in Melilla and proclaimed martial law.
Recuerdos de la guerra de España del 19 de julio de 1936 al 9 de febrero de 1939 (in Spanish). Logroño: Pepitas de Calabaza. Guerin, Daniel (1970). Anarchism: From Theory to Practice. New York: Monthly Review Press. p. 134. Guillamón, Agustín (2007). Barricades in Barcelona: The CNT from the victory of July 1936 to the necessary defeat of ...