commander, 6 engagements

Battles of Francisco Franco

Spanish general and dictator (1892–1975)

Francisco Franco is recorded as a commander at 6 placed engagements in the atlas between 1936 and 1938: 4 battles and 2 sieges, all in present-day Spain. Taken in date order, the sites lie 530 km apart end to end, 106 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Spanish Civil War (6).

6 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

6 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Spanish Civil War 6

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
8 November 1936	Siege of Madrid	Madrid, Spain		Nationalist victory; Republicans win the battle in 1936...
15 November 1936	Battle of Ciudad Universitaria	Madrid, Spain	4 km NW	Republican victory
15 December 1937	Battle of Teruel	Teruel, Spain	223 km E	Nationalist victory
25 July 1938	Battle of the Ebro	Ebro, Spain	161 km NE	Nationalist victory
31 July 1938	Siege of Gandesa	Gandesa, Spain	13 km S	Nationalist victory
1938	Catalonia Offensive	Catalonia, Spain	130 km NE	Nationalist victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.