Catalonia Offensive
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| Catalonia Offensive | |||||||
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| Part of the Spanish Civil War | |||||||
 Map of Spain in November 1938, after the end of the Battle of the Ebro. Republican territory is in red, and Nationalist territory is blue. Please click on map to enlarge the image. |
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Spanish Republic |
 Nationalist Spain |
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| Commanders | |||||||
| Juan Hernández Saravia | Fidel Dávila Arrondo | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 300,000 360 artillery pieces 200 tanks and armoured cars 80 aircraft)[1] |
300,000 562 artillery pieces 500 aircraft)[2] |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| ? dead 10,000 wounded 60,000 captured 220,000 disarmed in France [3] |
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The Catalonia Offensive was part of the Spanish Civil War. The Nationalist Army started the offensive on December 23, 1938, and rapidly conquered Republican held Catalonia with its capital city, Barcelona. Barcelona was captured on January 26, and Franco closed the border with France by February 10, 1939.
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- Thomas, Hugh The Spanish Civil War. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-014278-2.
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