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    The Battle of Brunete (6–25 July 1937), fought 24 kilometres (15 mi) west of Madrid, was a Republican attempt to alleviate the pressure exerted by the...
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    Brunete (Spanish pronunciation: [bɾuˈnete]) is a town located on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, with a population of 10,730 people. There was no military...
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    George Nathan (category British military personnel of the Irish War of Independence)
    Nathan later became Chief of Staff of the XV International Brigade and was killed in action on 16 July 1937 at the Battle of Brunete. Even though he had been...
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    at the Battle of Brunete. On 6 July, XV IB occupied the villages of Romanillos and Boadilla del Monte, and by midnight captured the village of Villanueva...
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    intention of encircling the Nationalists. However, the Battle of Brunete again developed into a bloody stalemate. The initial Republican attack took Brunete and...
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    fought at Jarama, Brunete, Boadilla, Belchite, Fuentes de Ebro, Teruel and the Ebro River. The brigade's first combat, at the Battle of Jarama in February...
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    Vicente Rojo Lluch (category Spanish military personnel of the Rif War)
    Army, in the battles of Jarama, Guadalajara, Brunete and Belchite. On 24 March 1937 he was promoted to colonel, and after the formation of the Negrín government...
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  • Mechanised Division No. 1 Brunete whose name recalled the Battle of Brunete during the Spanish Civil War, was a military formation of the Spanish Army, created...
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    Juan Modesto (category Communist Party of Spain politicians)
    promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Popular Army and commander of 5th Army Corps, participating in the battles of Belchite, Brunete (July) and Teruel (December...
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    Gerda Taro (category German people of the Spanish Civil War)
    testimony of the actual situation. During her coverage of the Republican army retreat at the Battle of Brunete, Taro hopped onto the runningboard of General...
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    Valentín González (category Communist Party of Spain politicians)
    and Guadalajara (March 1937). In the summer of 1937, he led the 46th Division in the Battle of Brunete. Heavily promoted as a heroic figure by Soviet...
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    had done before the Battle of Brunete, and the attempt to capture Zaragoza failed. The town was partially destroyed, but instead of rebuilding it, Franco...
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    Julian Bell (category Alumni of King's College, Cambridge)
    the thick of the action, driving an ambulance for the British Medical Unit attached to the International Brigades at the Battle of Brunete. He was hit...
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  • 1937 in the Spanish Civil War (category Chronology of the Spanish Civil War)
    Battle of Brunete (Brunete is a town in the province of Madrid). Franco soon regained momentum, invading Aragon in August and then taking the city of...
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    fought in the Spanish Civil War and later moved to the People's Republic of China. Jacob Schulman was born and raised in Rochester, New York, to Jewish...
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    11th Division (Spain) (category Divisions of Spain)
    Army Corps under the command of Enrique Jurado Barrio. After Guadalajara the 11th Division took part in the Battle of Brunete in the summer 1937. There Líster...
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    Oliver Law (category Members of the Communist Party USA)
    led the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in the first days of the Battle of Brunete. At the beginning of July the Popular Front government launched a major attack...
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  • Evan Shipman (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
    and then saw action as an infantryman in the battles of Jarama and Bruente, being badly wounded at Brunete. He carried shrapnel fragments in his leg until...
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    and Belgium, under General "Walter" (Karol Świerczewski). After the Battle of Brunete (6–25 July 1937), brigade strength was reduced from four to two battalions...
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  • Jane Rogoyska (category British people of Polish descent)
    first English-language biography of the German photojournalist who died, aged 26, while reporting on the Battle of Brunete during the Spanish Civil War in...
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  • Bill Alexander (British politician) (category Alumni of the University of Reading)
    combat during the Battle of Brunete. After a fortnight of fighting, his battalion went from a strength of 300 to 42, with Alexander one of the survivors....
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    José Miaja (category Spanish military personnel of the Rif War)
    Spanish Republican Army commander of the Central Zone, he directed the battles of the Jarama, Guadalajara and Brunete. He later supported the rebellion...
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    International Brigades (category Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic)
    the battles of Madrid, Jarama, Guadalajara, Brunete, Belchite, Teruel, Aragon and the Ebro. Most of these ended in defeat. For the last year of its existence...
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    Hugo Sperrle (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross)
    the Nationaists in the Battle of Bilbao and played a large role in defeating a Republican offensive in the Battle of Brunete, near Madrid. In attacking...
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  • Revolutionary War Battle of Brunete – 1937 – Spanish Civil War Battle of Brunanburh – 937 Battle of Brunkeberg – 1471 – Dano-Swedish War (1470–71) Battle of Bråvalla...
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    Cipriano Mera (category Spanish military personnel of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction))
    defense of Madrid, the Battle of Guadalajara (March 1937) and in the Battle of Brunete (July 1937). He replaced Juan Perea Capulino in command of the IV...
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    Ludwig Renn (category Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany)
    leader of the Thälmann Battalion of the XII International Brigade, fighting in the Battle of Guadalajara in March 1937 and then in the Battle of Brunete. In...
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    part of the vanguard at the Battle of Brunete and after three days the brigade was placed under the A Division (División A) of the V Army Corps of the...
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    German involvement in the Spanish Civil War (category Military of Nazi Germany)
    of the Legion to the Nationalist cause. The Legion also took part in the Battle of Brunete and both land and air forces were involved in the Battle of...
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  • Robert Hale Merriman (category University of California, Berkeley faculty)
    fought in the Battle of Brunete (July 1937), and again suffered appalling losses. Of the 2,500 men of the XV who went into the battle, only 1,000 effective...
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