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    Juan Yagüe y Blanco, 1st Marquis of San Leonardo de Yagüe (19 November 1891 – 21 October 1952) was a Spanish military officer during the Spanish Civil...
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  • surname include: Albert Yagüe (born 1985), Spanish footballer Brigitte Yagüe (born 1981), Spanish taekwondo practitioner Juan Yagüe (1891–1952), Spanish...
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    and the Spanish Legion were dispatched under López Ochoa and Colonel Juan Yagüe to relieve the besieged government garrisons and to retake the towns from...
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    The Morocco Army Corps Cuerpo del Ejército de Marruecos led by General Juan Yagüe: 40th División 50th División, led by Colonel Campos. 105th División Except...
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    Juan Ignacio Moreno de Acevedo Yagüe (born 1973), better known as Juan Moreno Yagüe, is a Spanish lawyer, activist and politician. He is a specialist...
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    card given by Alfonso VIII. The village is the birthplace of Juan Yagüe in 1891. Yagüe, a general in Franco's army, became notorious for instigating...
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    Meanwhile, after the failed assault on Titulcia, the Francoist general Juan Yagüe wrote to Franco reporting that due to 'the total lack of professional...
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  • "Republican repression" or the Spanish Red Terror. Queipo de Llano and Juan Yagüe would later justify the massacre at Badajoz as punishment for the Republican...
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    000 men at its height), under the command of then Lieutenant-Colonel Juan Yagüe, which would march through Extremadura towards Madrid. On 11 August Mérida...
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  • 10 August 1936 and secured control the following day, allowing General Juan Yagüe to surround and capture neighbouring Badajoz in the Battle of Badajoz...
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  • needed] José Sanjurjo Francisco Franco Emilio Mola José Millán-Astray Juan Yagüe Emilio Blanco Izaga José Marina Francisco Gómez Jordana [es] Cardona,...
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    Moroccan regulares and the Spanish Legion, under the command of Colonel Juan Yagüe, made up the feared shock troops of the Francoist military. In their advance...
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  • two columns, one commanded by General Juan Yagüe and the other commanded by Colonel José Enrique Varela. Yagüe's force advanced north, making remarkably...
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    regulares, under General Juan Yagüe, along with air cover supplied by Nazi Germany, routed the Republican militias in their path. Yague argued for a rapid advance...
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    vision for Spain. On 12 June, Prime Minister Casares Quiroga met General Juan Yagüe, who falsely convinced Casares of his loyalty to the republic. Mola began...
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    Traditionalism People Francisco Franco Luis Carrero Blanco Carlos Arias Navarro Juan Yagüe Manuel Fraga Blas Piñar Torcuato Fernández-Miranda Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta...
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    revolt in the area of Asturias. Under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Juan Yagüe, the Army of Africa played an important part in the Spanish Civil War...
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    Traditionalism People Francisco Franco Luis Carrero Blanco Carlos Arias Navarro Juan Yagüe Manuel Fraga Blas Piñar Torcuato Fernández-Miranda Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta...
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    Les Borges Blanques, Muñoz Grandes and Garcia Valiño occupied Artesa, and Yagüe crossed the Ebro. Moscardo attacked from Lleida and the Italians occupied...
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    Dávila Arrondo, with Juan Vigón Suerodíaz as his second in command. José Solchaga, José Moscardó, Antonio Aranda, and Juan Yagüe would command army corps...
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    as a second lieutenant in the Spanish Army, in the same promotion as Juan Yagüe, Emilio Esteban Infantes, Camilo Alonso Vega, José Asensio, Lisardo Doval...
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    general Juan Yagüe, who, after the civil war, was appointed Minister of Aviation by Franco. For the actions of his troops at Badajoz, Yagüe was popularly...
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    but still prior to mid-day, sub-units of Cuerpo de Marruecos of colonel Yagüe moved east of Esplugues. They overcome resistance of Republican soldiers...
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    back from exile in Portugal. The plan was for Sanjurjo to link up with Juan Yagüe and to lead a coup. The plotters waited at the philologist Pedro Sainz...
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    Spanish). Barcelona: Plaza & Janés. pp. 19–20. ISBN 84-01-37556-8. Cebrián, Juan Luis (1995). "La agonía del franquismo". In Pradera, Javier; Juliá, Santos...
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    Catalonia and establish a provisional Republican government presided over by Juan Negrín in order to later overthrow the dictatorship of Francisco Franco....
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    men such as Alfredo Kindelán, Luis Orgaz Yoldi, Antonio Aranda Mata and Juan Yagüe. As the post-war period progressed, the High Command's criticism of Falangist...
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    of a part of the Monarchists who vouched for an immediate coronation of Juan de Borbón as king, as well as sizeable part of the Catholic family joining...
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    Juan Yagüe Blanco. Transferred to the front were the 150th Division led by General Sáenz de Buruaga, the 4th Brigade of Navarre led by Colonel Juan Bautista...
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    Minister Casares Quiroga met General Juan Yagüe, who was accused of masterminding the growing conspiracy in North Africa. Yagüe managed, falsely, to convince...
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