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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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    Brunete (Spanish pronunciation: [bɾuˈnete]) is a town located on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain with a population of 10,730 people. There was no military...
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    Juan Modesto (category Communist Party of Spain politicians)
    promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Popular Army and commander of 5th Army Corps, participating in the battles of Belchite, Brunete (July) and Teruel (December...
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    intention of encircling the Nationalists. However, the Battle of Brunete again developed into a bloody stalemate. The initial Republican attack took Brunete and...
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    had done before the Battle of Brunete, and the attempt to capture Zaragoza failed. The town was partially destroyed, but instead of rebuilding it, Franco...
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    Gerda Taro (category German people of the Spanish Civil War)
    testimony of the actual situation. During her coverage of the Republican army retreat at the Battle of Brunete, Taro hopped onto the runningboard of General...
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    Battalion. This was the composition in July 1937 for the Battle of Brunete. As with the Battle of Jarama, the brigade suffered huge casualties; the brigade...
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  • Mechanised Division No. 1 Brunete whose name recalled the Battle of Brunete during the Spanish Civil War, was a military formation of the Spanish Army, created...
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  • British Battalion (category 20th-century military history of the United Kingdom)
    at the Battle of Brunete. On 6 July, XV IB occupied the villages of Romanillos and Boadilla del Monte, and by midnight captured the village of Villanueva...
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    Vicente Rojo Lluch (category Spanish military personnel of the Rif War)
    Army, in the battles of Jarama, Guadalajara, Brunete and Belchite. On 24 March 1937 he was promoted to colonel, and after the formation of the Negrín government...
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  • 1937 in the Spanish Civil War (category Chronology of the Spanish Civil War)
    Battle of Brunete (Brunete is a town in the province of Madrid). Franco soon regained momentum, invading Aragon in August and then taking the city of...
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  • Bill Alexander (British politician) (category Alumni of the University of Reading)
    combat during the Battle of Brunete. After a fortnight of fighting, his battalion went from a strength of 300 to 42, with Alexander one of the survivors....
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    11th Division (Spain) (category Divisions of Spain)
    Army Corps under the command of Enrique Jurado Barrio. After Guadalajara the 11th Division took part in the Battle of Brunete in the summer 1937. There Líster...
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    part of the vanguard at the Battle of Brunete and after three days the brigade was placed under the A Division (División A) of the V Army Corps of the...
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    José Miaja (category Spanish military personnel of the Rif War)
    Spanish Republican Army commander of the Central Zone, he directed the battles of the Jarama, Guadalajara and Brunete. He later supported the rebellion...
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    in the Battle of Brunete, the largest tank battle to that date in the war, with some 150 Republican tanks taking part. The battle was also one of the few...
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    George Nathan (category British military personnel of the Irish War of Independence)
    Nathan later became Chief of Staff of the XV International Brigade and was killed in action on 16 July 1937 at the Battle of Brunete. Even though he had been...
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  • Evan Shipman (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
    and then saw action as an infantryman in the battles of Jarama and Bruente, being badly wounded at Brunete. He carried shrapnel fragments in his leg until...
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    International Brigades (category Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic)
    the battles of Madrid, Jarama, Guadalajara, Brunete, Belchite, Teruel, Aragon and the Ebro. Most of these ended in defeat. For the last year of its existence...
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    Julian Bell (category Alumni of King's College, Cambridge)
    the thick of the action, driving an ambulance for the British Medical Unit attached to the International Brigades at the battle of Brunete. He was hit...
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    45 mm anti-tank gun M1937 (53-K) (category World War II artillery of the Soviet Union)
    International Brigades in the British Anti-tank Battery of the XV Brigade, who served from the Battle of Brunete onwards. Richard Baxell notes that the gun in Spain...
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    German involvement in the Spanish Civil War (category Military of Nazi Germany)
    of the Legion to the Nationalist cause. The Legion also took part in the Battle of Brunete and both land and air forces were involved in the Battle of...
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    Hugo Sperrle (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross)
    the Nationaists in the Battle of Bilbao and played a large role in defeating a Republican offensive in the Battle of Brunete, near Madrid. In attacking...
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  • Revolutionary War Battle of Brunete – 1937 – Spanish Civil War Battle of Brunanburh – 937 Battle of Brunkeberg – 1471 – Dano-Swedish War (1470–71) Battle of Bråvalla...
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    Oliver Law (category Members of the Communist Party USA)
    led the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in the first days of the Battle of Brunete. At the beginning of July the Popular Front government launched a major attack...
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    Robert Capa (category Recipients of the Medal of Freedom)
    footboard) collided with an out-of-control tank. She had been returning from a photographic assignment covering the Battle of Brunete. Capa accompanied then-journalist...
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    Carlos Romero Giménez (category Spanish military personnel of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction))
    command of the Second Army Corps, which defended the outskirts of Madrid. He participated in the Battle of Brunete, although the performance of his unit...
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    Valentín González (category Communist Party of Spain politicians)
    and Guadalajara (March 1937). In the summer of 1937, he led the 46th Division in the Battle of Brunete. Heavily promoted as a heroic figure by Soviet...
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    went to the battle of Brunete by order of General José Enrique Varela to try to alleviate the pressure on the Francoist garrison. The arrival of the Navarrese...
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  • Manuel Matallana (category Spanish military personnel of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction))
    colonel and in July 1937 he was the chief of staff of Miaja during the battle of Brunete, and then later promoted again to general. In February 1939 he said...
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