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20 KILLED IN MADRID
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RID, May 80 G.N.S.O. Twenty persons were killed today when nationalist big guns shelled Madrid for two hours.
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Republican assault — Battle of the Ebro
The Republican Army spent a week preparing to cross the Ebro. Franco thought that the Republican Army would not be ready to undertake such a crossing.
Wikipedia →Aftermath — Battle of the Ebro
As a result of the Battle of the Ebro the Republican army was destroyed as an effective force, and the Republican air force was no longer capable of offering further resistance. Both sides had suffered huge losses, with estimates ranging from 50,000 to 60,000 to 110,000 casualties, as well as the loss of large numbers of aircraft (the Republicans between 130 and 150).
Wikipedia →Siege of Madrid
Infighting and fall of Madrid (1938–March 1939)
In 1938, the siege of Madrid tightened and its population suffered increasingly from a lack of food, warm clothes and arms and ammunition. By the spring of 1939, after the collapse of the Republican forces on other fronts, the Republican cause in Madrid was clearly doomed, which created a bitter division within Republican ranks. On 28 March, Colonel Prada, commander of the Army of the Centre, surrendered to the Nationalist troops, who occupied Madrid.
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