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    Emilio Mola y Vidal (9 July 1887 – 3 June 1937) was one of the three leaders of the Nationalist coup of July 1936 that started the Spanish Civil War....
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  • politician Emilio Mwai Kibaki, 3rd President of the Republic of Kenya Emilio Mola, Nationalist commander during the Spanish Civil War Emilio Navaira, Mexican-American...
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    Many scholars have no doubt about Mola's role and refer to "fifth column" as "a term coined in 1936 by General Emilio Mola", though they acknowledge that...
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  • Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz (1921–1986), Mexican politician and journalist Carmen Mola, 2020s pseudonymous Spanish novelist Emilio Mola (1887–1937), Spanish...
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    islands. Emilio Mola was moved from leading the Army of Africa to the post of military commander of Pamplona in Navarre. This allowed Mola to direct...
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    Franco to send troops to go north and to be led by General Emilio Mola. On 31 March 1937, Mola attacked the province of Biscay, which included the bombing...
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    Civil War from 22 July to 15 September 1936. The Nationalists sent by Emilio Mola attempted to cross the mountain passes of the Sierra de Guadarrama to...
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    group of generals of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces, with General Emilio Mola as the primary planner and leader and General José Sanjurjo as a figurehead...
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    when Francoist authorities renamed the village in honour of General Emilio Mola, who died in a plane crash near Alcocero on 3 June 1937. Municipal Register...
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    but he was arrested near the French border, and sent back by General Emilio Mola. On 19 March 1945, he announced a manifesto in Lausanne, demanding he...
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    unthinkable had become normal. Anti-republican conspirators led by General Emilio Mola seized the moment, accelerating the military coup that had been plotted...
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    electoral funds to the initial leader of the Nationalist faction, General Emilio Mola. Subsequently, many members of CEDA's youth movement, Juventudes de Acción...
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    During the opening stages of the civil war RE was close to General Emilio Mola, who consulted regularly with the group's leadership. The assassination...
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    the initial leader of the military coup against the republic, General Emilio Mola. Subsequently, supporters of the CEDA's youth movement, Juventudes de...
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    1936, upon the Nationalist takeover of Navarre, their leader General Emilio Mola had announced a war of annihilation against the Second Spanish Republic...
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    attack the mainland, while another force from the north under General Emilio Mola moved south from Navarre. Military units were also mobilised elsewhere...
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    and red beret under the fake name "Juan López". However, rebel general Emilio Mola, mastermind behind the putschist plot, was warned of the move and had...
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    who tried to arrange a truce with the insurgent General Emilio Mola by telephone, but Mola refused the offer and Martinez Barrio was ousted by José Giral...
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    including President Miguel Cabanellas, Head of State Francisco Franco, Emilio Mola, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, attended the meeting and were all candidates...
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  • in World War II. In Spanish service, two boats were known as the General Mola class; these were taken out of service in 1959. The ships were designed by...
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    the same morning, after an unsuccessful appeal to Nationalist General Emilio Mola to avoid war, and was succeeded by José Giral. He fled the country after...
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  • Force[citation needed] José Sanjurjo Francisco Franco Emilio Mola José Millán-Astray Juan Yagüe Emilio Blanco Izaga José Marina Francisco Gómez Jordana [es]...
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    chaos" became pretexts for a coup. Franco himself along with General Emilio Mola had stirred an anti-Communist campaign in Morocco. On 23 February, Franco...
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    of the army and moved to a position in the Canary Islands and General Emilio Mola was demoted from a major command in Spanish Morocco to a position as...
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  • 1976. Roebuck's weekly column, entitled "5th Column", in deference to Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general in the Spanish Civil War, became a must-read...
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    Azaña on 10 May 1936, a group of Spanish Army officers, including Yagüe, Emilio Mola, Franco, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano and José Sanjurjo, started plotting...
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    the Republic by Azaña on 10 May 1936, Sanjurjo joined with Generals Emilio Mola, Francisco Franco and Gonzalo Queipo de Llano in a plot to overthrow...
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    In the north, a rebel force under Colonel Beorlegui, sent by General Emilio Mola, advanced on Gipuzkoa. On September 5, after heavy fighting, it took...
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    awarded to members of the Spanish military service independent of rank. Emilio Mola Adolf Galland (Condor Legion) Mohamed Meziane Werner Mölders (Condor...
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    of pro-Nationalist forces inside the city (the "fifth column" General Emilio Mola had mentioned in propaganda broadcasts in 1936), Madrid fell to the Nationalists...
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