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    The International Brigades (Spanish: Brigadas Internacionales) were soldiers set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government...
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    Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War as a part of the International Brigades. The brigade mustered at Albacete in Spain, in January 1937, comprising...
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    Strip since February 2017, is a military leader in the Brigades in Gaza. The Al-Qassam Brigades are explicitly listed as a terrorist organization by the...
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    advisers to the Republicans. The support of what came to be called the International Brigades was also noteworthy. The Soviet Union was the main ally of the Second...
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    Liberty (1936–1939). Carolina Bunjes International Brigades International Brigades order of battle The International Brigades Archived May 27, 2008, at the Wayback...
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    Memorial to the International Brigades is a memorial structure, located in the campus of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, dedicated to the members...
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    artillery and tanks. Many commentators have compared the International Legion to the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War, which comprised foreign...
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    pro-Republican International Brigades, which also included several thousand exiles from pro-Nationalist regimes. Smaller numbers of pro-Republican international volunteer...
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  • British Battalion (category International Brigades)
    Battalion) was the 16th battalion of the XV International Brigade, one of the mixed brigades of the International Brigades, during the Spanish Civil War. It comprised...
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    June 2015 in Ras al-Ayn. Inspiration for the group came from the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War. The political ideologies of the fighters...
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  • ten brigades in the Spanish army, the five international brigades were then added to the list making the 5th International Brigade the 15th Brigade of...
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    brigades may constitute a division. Brigades formed into divisions are usually infantry or armored (sometimes referred to as combined arms brigades)...
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  • partial list of International Brigades personnel in the Spanish Civil War The brigades were military units set up by the Communist International consisting...
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    the International Brigades. The brigade was dissolved and then reformed on four occasions. The brigade was first mustered at the International Brigade headquarters...
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    The XIV International Brigade was one of several international brigades that fought for the Spanish Second Republic during the Spanish Civil War. It was...
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    Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (Russian: Исламская международная миротворческая бригада; abbr. IIPB), also known as the Islamic International Brigade...
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  • Spain, most of them for the Republicans. About 32,000 fought in the International Brigades, including the American Lincoln Battalion and the Canadian Mackenzie–Papineau...
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    countries. Only 800 came from Poland itself. The International Brigades often named its battalions and brigades using stirring historical symbolism. Such symbols...
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  • Robert Hale Merriman (category Abraham Lincoln Brigade personnel killed in action)
    was killed while commanding the Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the International Brigades. Merriman was born in Eureka, California, the son of a lumberjack...
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  • – 24 May 1938) was a Scottish communist and volunteer with the International Brigades, who was captured and expelled from Spain in 1937, but returned...
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    The International Brigades (IB) were volunteer military units of foreigners who fought on the side of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil...
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    Lincoln Battalion (category International Brigades)
    Abraham Lincoln Brigade, was the 17th (later the 58th) battalion of the XV International Brigade, a mixed brigade of the International Brigades. It was organized...
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  • posthumous citizenship for the veterans of the International Brigades. Jim Jump, chair of the International Brigade Memorial Trust said that, as all the anti-fascist...
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    Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a non-governmental organization founded in 1981 which "protects human rights and promotes non-violent transformation...
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    The CXXIX International Brigade or 129th International Brigade was a military unit of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Its members...
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    David Guest (communist) (category International Brigades personnel killed in action)
    his post as a lecturer at University College to volunteer for the International Brigades fighting in Spain. He wrote of his decision: Today we have certainly...
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  • death in 2004. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades continues to be aligned with Fatah politically. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced their separation from the...
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  • Thomas Wood (c. 1919 – 1936) was a young Irish man who joined the International Brigades, fighting on the side of the Spanish Republic during the civil war...
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    31st, 33rd and 60th mixed brigades. 42nd Division, under Commander Manuel Alvarez, including the 226th, 227th and 59th brigades. In mid-July the 15th Army...
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    Africa forced back the Republican Army of the Centre, including the International Brigades, but after days of fierce fighting no breakthrough was achieved...
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