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King Alfonso XII leaves Spain after Republican and socialist candidates are victorious in the nation's municipal elections.
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Popular Front coalition of left-wing parties wins Spanish national elections and forms new Republican government.
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Right-wing military uprising against the Spanish government is declared in Spanish Morocco
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Franco takes control of Insurgent armies, aiding Germany and Italy.
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Hitler takes part in agreeing to support Franco.
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Nationalists burn the city of Irun.
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Franco was named Generalissimo and also becomes supreme head of Nationalist government and armies.
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Germany and Italy start to realize the Nationalist government.
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The first Americans leave New York harbor on the S. S. Normandie to fight for the Republic.
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Nationalists capture Malaga.
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The Americans formed two new battalions. One was the George Washington Battalion and the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion.
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Guernica is bombed by German Planes leaving over 2,500 civilian deaths.
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Over time the battles all around contined such as the battles of Quinto and Belchite in which the Lincolns suffered many casualties but won.
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The Lincolns and MacPaps try to attack Fuentes de Ebro near Zaragoza, but are extremely unsuccessful. Days later, all of Northern Spain is in Nationalist control.
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At this point, the Reublican government moved to Barcelona.
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The Lincolns and MacPaps captured Teruel with Americans fighting nearby. This is important because the Nationalists have control of Northern Spain.
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The Nationalists take action to recapture Teruel being part of Northern territory.
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Nationalists begin major offensive in Aragón making the Lincolns retreat south out of Belchite and then they are overrun by rebel offensive, with many taken prisoners this sparks the beginning of the Great Retreats.
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The Republican Army creates the Ebro offensive after the Lincolns were training for aboutn a month or so.
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After training, the Lincolns head east of Gandesa becoming somewhat convinced after capturing Fatarella that they could keep going. They were blasted with a lot of artillery and the battallion strength was down to 300.
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The Lincolns begin activity around Corbera and then Juan Négrin, Prime Minister of the Republic, announces to the League of Nations at Geneva a unilateral withdrawal of all international troops from the Republican army.
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The Lincolns are withdrawn from the Ebro region after the Prime Ministers announcement.
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The Ebro campaign ends as the Reublic armies retreat across the rivers.
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The Nationalists capture Barcelona and on March 29th, 1939 they also capture Madrid.
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Franco declares that the war is over and over 90 Americans come home this month.
