On the other side the situation is different. The moral forces, at the political level, derive from the following parties:the C.E.D.A. of Gil Robles, the Agrarians (Martinez de Velasco), the Spanish Renovation (Calvo Sotelo), the Falange (José Antonio), and the Carlists. The Radicals (Lerroux), Cons
On July 17, General Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Captain-General of the Canary Islands, embarked in Tenerife for Tetouan, after declaring himself against the Republican government. On July 18, the National Movement was launched on the impulse of General Franco, who launched a manifesto the same day.
For the first time in Spain—and, three months later, for the first time in France with the Popular Front—the left will have united. The Frente Popular, in fact, includes the Republican Left (Azaria), the Republican Union (Diego Martinez Barrie), the Catalan Esquerra (Luis Companys Jover), the Social
What ideas 7 What men? Five years apart, electionsshook political Spain upside down and changed its destiny. On April 12, 1931, the municipal elections , intervened in a pre-revolutionary climate, give a curious result:if, indeed, the number of the monarchist councilors largely outweighs that of the
The 1st Para Div. withdrewFor this third offensive against Cassino. Alexander engaged the bulk of the 8th Army and completely revised its strategy. This time the main effort would be directed against the right of the Germans, by the French colonial troops of June, who would execute a breakthrough fo
Although worn down by 220 days of uninterrupted combat, the 1st Div. Para, however, retained a high firepower, which was to prove itself when the second phase of the Battle of Cassino began on March 15. During it, the Allies synthesized all their previous mistakes and returned to the classic hammer
The bombardment certainly shook the defenders of Monte Cassino, but it was not immediately followed by an attack in force. Its clearest result was to turn the abbey into a vast expanse of rubble and craters, while leaving the massive outer walls partially intact, which lends itself perfectly to defe
It was during the second week of February that the paratroopers were engaged at Cassino. They arrived at the right time, for Cavalry Hill had already changed hands twice. But, on February 10, the 3rd Bn. of the Regt. Para, on Commander Kratzerts orders, again expelled the Americans, and this time th
But over the next ten days, the tide turned in Kesselrings favour. The Allied landings at Anzio on January 22 had failed to attract units from the Cassino sector. On the contrary, the situation at Anzio was such that German units could now be moved to the Cassino sector - and the first that arrived
On January 24, after a week of fighting, Clark could only claim a narrow bridgehead on the Garigliano, in the coastal sector, and a bloody failure on the Rapido. He launched in the third attack the French colonial troops, of General Alphonse Juin, supported by all the units available in the sector
The 1st Div. Para ended 1943 in the Adriatic sector, on the front of the Sangro River where it had withdrawn from Apulia before the advance of Montgomerys 8th Army. During the retreat, the paratroopers, applying the principle that a heap of rubble provides good cover for the defender while complica
At the beginning of 1944, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, commander of the German forces in Italy, could look back on the last four months of operations with some satisfaction. He had managed to slow down and even halt the advance of the Allies whohad landed on September 9, 1943; German troops held
During World War II, the Battle of Monte Cassino was a series of battles fought by the Allies to break through the Gustav Line to occupy Rome and join forces landing at Anzio. Hundreds of bombers annihilated the Abbey of Montecassino there. After Operation Husky (landing and capture of Sicily by t
Orders received on the evening of August 23 are, in turn, passed on to the man who was then Colonel de Langlade, at the head of the G.T. L. battle group bearing the initial of its name.2nd Armored DivisionBattle Group LGeneral Staff (3rd Bureau)Command Post on August 25, 19449:30 a.m.Operation order
Colonel in August 44, after the astonishing journey that led him from U.S.S.R. in London, General Billotte, who recounts his experience, commands tactical group V.Leclerc put me in charge of the main action in Paris, with Arpajon, Sceaux, the Pantheon... then the Prefecture of Police. Which program
Paul de Langlade, cavalry officer - whose disappearance, in February 80, pained all those who loved and esteemed him - was called, in 1943, by General Leclerc, to the formation of the 2nd D.B. and its training in Morocco. Colonel appointed to the command of Groupement Tactique Langlade, one of the o
However, writes General de Lattre, if the 2nd C.A. did not have the deserved joy of entering Alsace first, it is to him that it owes its deliverance in part. By annihilating an enemy division, by drawing into the mountains six battalions from the Belfort gap, four taken from the front of the 6th C.A
But the commander of the 2nd army corps still believes it is possible to break up the enemy front. He still hopes to breach the line on which the Germans intend to stop us all winter:the Winterline. He therefore decided to seize the eastern ridges of the Moselotte as quickly as possible, then to exp
To exploit this opportunity, it would be essential to concentrate our efforts in this zone where the German device seems to yield and to reinforce our infantry there to conquer the crests between which passes the small road of Bresse. But a real fatality seems to be dogging our undertakings, because
The day of October 4, the first day of battle, is disappointing. On my right, the attack of the 1st D.B. against Le Thillot was based on the combination of three actions leading to the encirclement of the locality:• Lieutenant-Colonel Faures paratroopers were to engage , to the right of the American
This confrontation is part of a war that begins in the year 376, when the rebellion of a group of Goth refugees took place against the mistreatment suffered at the hands of the imperial officials, and that ends in the year 382, after the death of Valens in Adrianople and the signing of the peace b
As impressive as the conquests of the Mongol horsemen throughout the length and breadth of that enormous land mass that is Central Asia, the challenges they had to face on the limits of their great empire were ever greater. Among the setbacks suffered, no expedition suffered such severe punishment a
Year after year, tracing their path with rigor, Glénat editions have left their mark on the landscape of historical comics. Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Louis XIV, Charles de Gaulle, Mao Zedong… now inhabit the portrait gallery of the “They made history” collection. On the occasion of the 100th anniversa
Although the most famous natural disaster in the Aegean Sea was probably the brutal eruption of the Tera volcano in the middle of the second millennium BC, as a result of which the island of Santorini has remained and whose effects are theorized to have caused a tsunami large enough to arrive in Egy