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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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    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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  • The Mechanised Division No. 1 Brunete whose name recalled the Battle of Brunete during the Spanish Civil War, was a military formation of the Spanish...
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  • Centro Deportivo Brunete were a football team based in Brunete in the Community of Madrid. Centro Deportivo Brunete was founded in 1950. The team came...
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    Luis Manuel Partida Brunete (born 6 September 1946) is a Spanish People's Party (PP) politician. He has been the mayor of Villanueva de la Cañada in the...
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    in demand by the international press when, alone, she was covering the Brunete region near Madrid for Ce Soir. Although the Nationalist propaganda claimed...
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    developed by the mentioned Army, in the battles of Jarama, Guadalajara, Brunete and Belchite. On 24 March 1937 he was promoted to colonel, and after the...
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    strong counter-offensive to the west of Madrid, focusing on Brunete. The Battle of Brunete, however, was a significant defeat for the Republic, which lost...
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  • hospital, the British Battalion mustered 331 brigaders at the Battle of Brunete. On 6 July, XV IB occupied the villages of Romanillos and Boadilla del...
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    Jack Shulman in Spain, just prior to the Battle of Brunete....
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    British Medical Unit attached to the International Brigades at the Battle of Brunete. He was hit by bomb fragments on a stretch of road just outside Villanueva...
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    Nationalists. However, the Battle of Brunete again developed into a bloody stalemate. The initial Republican attack took Brunete and pushed back the Nationalist...
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    which was involved in some of the most important battles in Guadalajara, Brunete, Belchite and Teruel. Those brigades under his control rapidly became special...
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    1937). In the summer of 1937, he led the 46th Division in the Battle of Brunete. Heavily promoted as a heroic figure by Soviet propaganda, González was...
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    Franco-Belgian Sixth February Battalion. The brigade fought at Jarama, Brunete, Boadilla, Belchite, Fuentes de Ebro, Teruel and the Ebro River. The brigade's...
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    šokolādes desa (chocolate sausage), saldā desa (sweet sausage), saldā brunete (sweet brunette), which is made out of cocoa, broken biscuits, butter,...
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    July 22, 1938 Madrid, Spain Died October 24, 2017(2017-10-24) (aged 79) Brunete Nationality Spanish Education Instituto Beatriz Galindo Escuela Superior...
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    bad image of the bombing of Guernica. After failed attempts to capture Brunete, the Republican military leadership decided to try a new series of offensives...
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    to Spain during the Spanish Civil War, and, as late as 1945, Spain's "Brunete Armored Division" fielded 93. The Panzer I remained in use in Spain until...
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    Manrique, La Brunete, pp. 42–43 Manrique, La Brunete, pp. 41–43 Manrique, La Brunete, p. 69 Manrique, La Brunete, pp. 39–42 Manrique, La Brunete, p. 43 Vidal...
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    Mancha. They participated in the battles of Madrid, Jarama, Guadalajara, Brunete, Belchite, Teruel, Aragon and the Ebro. Most of these ended in defeat....
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    commander of 5th Army Corps, participating in the battles of Belchite, Brunete (July) and Teruel (December 1937 and January 1938). On 26 August 1938,...
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    finally pulled out of the lines for a brief rest before the offensive at Brunete. Joined by the newly trained George Washington Battalion, the XVth Brigade...
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    the Central Zone, he directed the battles of the Jarama, Guadalajara and Brunete. He later supported the rebellion led by Segismundo Casado against the...
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    British Anti-tank Battery of the XV Brigade, who served from the Battle of Brunete onwards. Richard Baxell notes that the gun in Spain "was effective against...
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  • infantryman in the battles of Jarama and Bruente, being badly wounded at Brunete. He carried shrapnel fragments in his leg until his death. Shipman returned...
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  • 659 m (2,162 ft) Bad Tölz 658 m (2,159 ft) Trofaiach 658 m (2,159 ft) Brunete 656 m (2,152 ft) Prilep 655 m (2,149 ft) Tripoli 655 m (2,149 ft) Bad Wurzach...
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    Mazuco Jaén 2nd Barcelona Deutschland Almería Segovia Huesca Albarracín Brunete Zaragoza 1st Belchite Cape Cherchell Sabiñánigo 1st Lérida Teruel 1938...
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    José Ramón de la Morena Pozuelo (born 1956 in Brunete, Madrid) is a Spanish journalist. Holding a bachelor's degree in information science, he is the...
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  • Mazuco Jaén 2nd Barcelona Deutschland Almería Segovia Huesca Albarracín Brunete Zaragoza 1st Belchite Cape Cherchell Sabiñánigo 1st Lérida Teruel 1938...
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