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    The Battle of Bielsa pocket took place between 14 April and 15 June 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. After the fall of the Aragon front, a Republican...
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    Marcelo Alberto Bielsa Caldera ([maɾˈselo alˈβeɾto ˈβjelsa], nicknamed El Loco Bielsa [ˈloko ˈβjelsa], meaning 'The Madman Bielsa'; born 21 July 1955)...
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  • the recapture of Qufu. Born: Frederic Rzewski, composer and pianist, in Westfield, Massachusetts (d. 2021) The Battle of Bielsa pocket began. U.S. President...
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    The Battle of the Ebro (Spanish: Batalla del Ebro, Catalan: Batalla de l'Ebre) was the longest and largest battle of the Spanish Civil War and the greatest...
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  • 1938 in Spain (category Years of the 20th century in Spain)
    Barcelona April 1–3 - Battle of Gandesa (1938) April 14-June 16 - Battle of Bielsa pocket May 25 - Bombing of Alicante May 31 - Bombing of Granollers July 25-November...
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  • German Expressionist painter (suicide) The Battle of Bielsa pocket ended in Nationalist victory. Hundreds of civilians directed by brownshirts attacked...
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  • The Battle of Albarracín took place in Albarracín and surrounding areas (Teruel) between 5 July and 11 August 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. The...
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    The Battle of Brunete (6–25 July 1937), fought 24 kilometres (15 mi) west of Madrid, was a Republican attempt to alleviate the pressure exerted by the...
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  • ISBN 978-1-84935-239-0. Eggenberger, David (2012-03-08). An Encyclopedia of Battles: Accounts of Over 1,560 Battles from 1479 B.C. to the Present. Courier Corporation....
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    basic tactical military unit of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. It was initially designed as "pocket division", an innovative maneuverable...
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  • Guernica (Picasso) (category Bombing of Guernica)
    (2016). Jean Cocteau: A Life. Yale University Press. p. 576. "The German Pocket Battleship 'Admiral Scheer' Bombarding the Spanish Coast, 1937", Royal Museums...
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    German involvement in the Spanish Civil War (category Military of Nazi Germany)
    targets. The German North Sea Group around Spain, part of the Kriegsmarine, consisted of the pocket battleships Deutschland and Admiral Scheer, the light...
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    Frank Lampard (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    lead at the top of the Championship table, Lampard was critical of Leeds head coach Marcelo Bielsa, as in the pre-match build-up Bielsa admitted he had...
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  • and was surrounded in what was known as the Bielsa pocket. He had previously served as Chief of Staff of the 34th Division. Maldonado 2007, p. 202. Martínez...
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    1938–1939 in the Spanish Civil War (category Chronology of the Spanish Civil War)
    1938 Battle of Teruel was an important confrontation between Nationalists and Republicans. The city belonged to the Republicans at the beginning of the...
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    the Battle of Ebro, Republicans achieved their all-time high, slightly above 800,000; yet Nationalists numbered 880,000. The Battle of Ebro, fall of Catalonia...
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    1936 Teruel was re-taken by the Republicans on January 7, 1938 a strong pocket of Nationalist resistance, limited to the Alcazar, kept repelling Republican...
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    July 1936 military uprising in Seville (category Military history of Seville)
    Seville-centred pocket became crucial for transport of rebel troops from the Army of Africa to the peninsula; until end of July there were some 1,000 battle-hardened...
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    Andalusia campaign (category Battles of the Spanish Civil War)
    important pockets of resistance in places like San Fernando or La Línea de la Concepción, where they even had to send the 2nd Tabor of Regulars of Ceuta....
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    July 1936 coup d'état in Granada (category Battles of the Spanish Civil War)
    although they were able to crush it easily and take control of the factory. Other pockets of resistance in the city were put down without too much difficulty...
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    1936 in the Spanish Civil War (category Chronology of the Spanish Civil War)
    "Republican" or "Loyalist" Spain consisting of the Second Spanish Republic (within which were pockets of revolutionary anarchism and Trotskyism), and...
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