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Ten Killed in Shelling of Madrid
Madrid, Dec. 12-(AP)-Ten persons were killed today and at least a score wounded as insurgent batteries threw round after round of shrapnel into the center of the Spanish capital. The government ordered out its militia reserves to stem double-edged insurgent thrust at the capital's defenses. While Fascist battalions struck from the northeast and the west, a Socialist communique listed important victories far to the north in Asturias province, on the Bay of Biscay. A new offensive, the government said, captured several towns. Fascists suffered heavy losses, the communique declared.
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Battle of Jarama
The Battle of Jarama (6–27 February 1937) was an attempt by General Francisco Franco's Nationalists to dislodge the Republican lines along the river Jarama, just east of Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War. after days of fierce fighting no breakthrough was achieved. Republican counterattacks along the captured ground likewise failed, resulting in heavy casualties to both sides.
Wikipedia →Bombing of Guernica
On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica was aerially bombed during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco's rebel Nationalist faction by its allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria, under the code name Operation Rügen. The attack gave a new name to the deliberate targeting of civilian populations from the air, and its horror was immortalised by Pablo Picasso in his famous painting.
Wikipedia →Final offensive of the Spanish Civil War
By 27 March, the Nationalists were advancing on all fronts without resistance. On 28 March, Colonel Prada, commander of the Army of the Centre, surrendered to the Nationalist troops, who occupied Madrid — ending the two-and-a-half-year siege of the city that had begun with artillery barrages in late 1936.
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