Francisco Ciutat de Miguel

Francisco Ciutat de Miguel (1909 – November 30, 1986) (known as Angelito)cite web |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/hispanic_american_historical_review/v082/82.4dominguez.html |title=Zona de guerra: Espana y la revolucion cubana (1960–1962) |accessdate=2007-04-26 |format= |work=Duke University Press ] was a Spanish communistcite book |last=Aub |first=Max |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=Campo de los almendros |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year=2000 |month= |publisher=Editorial Castalia |location= |language= |isbn=8-4703-9858-X |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=p.204 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ] Lieutenant of infantry and Commander. He fought the Battle of Santander during the Spanish Civil War in the summer of 1937 as a Chief of Operations of the Army of the North. [cite web |url=http://www.ogqn.com/odb_gce/epr/batallas_epr/santander_epr/santander_epr.htm |title=Batalla de Santander |accessdate=2007-04-26 |format=htm |work=OdB GCE ]

Outside Spain

After the end of the Civil War, de Miguel fled to the Soviet Union where he joined the Voroshilov Academy and married Sofía Kokuina. [cite web |url=http://www.sbhac.net/Republica/Personajes/Militares/Militares1.htm |title=Memoria republicana |accessdate=2007-04-26 |format= |work= ] He later participated as a foreign military advisor to the Cuban Army during the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He also assisted the Algerian Army against Morocco during the Sand War and participated in the Vietnam War.cite web |url=http://lateclaconcafe.blogia.com/2006/120501-un-hombre-que-tuvo-tres-nombres.php |title=Un hombre que tuvo tres nombres |accessdate=2007-04-26 |format= |work=Mercedes Rodríguez García ]

He later returned to Spain in 1977 after the death of Francisco Franco.

Aliases

Ciutat de Miguel had many aliases:
* Masonic name: Algazel
* Russian name: Pavel Pablovich Stepanov
* Cuban alias: Ángel Martínez Riosola [cite web |url=http://lateclaconcafe.blogia.com/2006/120501-un-hombre-que-tuvo-tres-nombres.php |title="Te llamarás Ángel, Ángel Martínez Riosola" (given by Fidel Castro)|accessdate=2007-04-26 |format= |work=Mercedes Rodríguez García ]
* Short name: Paco
* Commonly referred to as Angelito

Bibliography

* "Relatos y reflexiones de la Guerra de España 1936-1939" - Francisco Ciutat de Miguel. Forma Ediciones. Madrid 1978. es icon

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