Battle of Guadalajara

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Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in the Spanish Civil War. Result: The Nationalists failed to isolate Republican-held Madrid from the bulk of Republican territory to the east.

On March 8, 1937, a reinforced Spanish Nationalist division under José Moscardo and four Italian divisions under Mario Roatta attacked to the southwest near Algora. As Roatta pushed down the Saragossa-Madrid Highway with a column of eighty-one Fiat-Ansaldo tankettes leading the way, the Republic’s Twelfth Division fell back. To the west, Moscardo met little resistance, but...

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