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José Sanjurjo y Sacanell (Spanish: [saŋˈxuɾxo]; 28 March 1872 – 20 July 1936) was a Spanish military officer who was one of the military leaders who plotted the July 1936 coup d'état that started the Spanish Civil War. He was endowed the nobiliary title of "Marquis of the Rif" in 1927. [1]
Emilio Mola y Vidal (9 July 1887 – 3 June 1937) was a Spanish military officer who was one of the three leaders of the Nationalist coup of July 1936 that started the Spanish Civil War. 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.
With no opposition, Sanjurjo moved his command post to Capitania General building at Plaza de la Gavidia, declared state of war, gave press interviews, issued a manifesto and started appointing new civil and military authorities in the province.
Archimede / General Sanjurjo: Archimedes/ Jose Sanjurjo [b] 10 December 1933 During the second half of 1936 she operated in Spanish waters covertly as Archimede. Transferred to the Spanish nationalist navy in April 1937, renamed General Sanjurjo.
Vega was born in Ceuta on 19 December 1913. Son of Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Vega Montes de Oca, arrested after the Sanjurjo uprising in 1932, the family was left in a precarious economic situation, so Vega decided to join the infantry as a volunteer soldier on 1 July 1932, becoming a second-class Civil Guard on 24 March 1934. [3]
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.
The siege of the Montaña Barracks (Spanish: Sitio del Cuartel de la Montaña) was the two-day siege which marked the initial failure of the July 1936 uprising against the Second Spanish Republic in Madrid, on 18–20 July 1936, at the start of the Spanish Civil War. The bulk of the security forces in Madrid remained loyal to the government ...
The Spanish Civil War had begun on July 18, 1936, after a half-failed coup d'état: the rebels had not managed to take power, but the Republic could not crush them either. This left rebel forces in control of only approximately a third of the country. [9] José Sanjurjo died in a plane crash on the 20th of July, only three days into the war.