Campaign of Guipúzcoa

Campaign of Guipúzcoa

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Campaign of Guipúzcoa


caption=
partof=the Spanish Civil War
date=July 20 - September 26, 1936
place= Guipúzcoa, Northern Spain
result=Decisive Nationalist victory
combatant1=flagicon|Spain|1931 Spanish Republic
combatant2=flagicon|Spain|1939 Nationalist Spain
commander1= Augusto Pérez Garmendia, Antonio Ortega
commander2= General Emilio Mola Alfonso Beorlegui Canet
strength1=?
strength2=?
casualties1=~?
casualties2=~?|

The Campaign of Guipúzcoa was part of the Spanish Civil War where the Nationalist Army conquered the northern province of Guipúzcoa, (part of the Basque Country), held by the Republic. Initially conceived by General Emilio Mola as an advance to Irun to cut the Northern provinces off from France and to link up with the rebel garrison in San Sebastian that was to have seized the city. The campaign was diverted from the advance on Irun when the direct route to Irun was blocked by the demolition of the bridge at Endarlatsa. When word came that the rebels in San Sebastian were besieged, Alfonso Beorlegui diverted all his forces westward toward San Sebastian in an attempt to relive the besieged rebel garrison. Two other Nationalist columns advanced on the city from points further west with the intent of cutting the city off from Viscaya. Following the failure to relieve the siege of the rebels in San Sebastian, the forces of Alfonso Beorlegui resumed their advance on Irun and cut off the northern provinces of Guipúzcoa, Vizcaya, Santander and Asturias from their source of arms and support in France by taking that city. They followed this up with the capture of San Sebastian and an advance to the border of Viscaya. There the resistance of the northern provincial forces and the exhaustion of the rebels resulted in an end of the offensive until the War in the North began.

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Sources

* Romero, Eladi, Itinerarios de la Guerra Civil española : guía del viajero curioso, Barcelona : Laertes, 2001 , 600 p.
* Barruso, Pedro, Verano y revolución. La guerra civil en Gipuzkoa' (julio-septiembre de 1936), Edita: Haramburu Editor. San Sebastián, 1996.
** [http://www.gipuzkoa1936.com/verano-e.php Pedro Barruso, GIPUZKOA 1936: VERANO Y REVOLUCIÓN, LA GUERRA CIVIL EN GIPUZKOA (Spanish)]
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* Manuel Aznar Historia Militar de la Guerra de España. 3 vols. Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1969.


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