88th Mixed Brigade
88th Mixed Brigade | |
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88.ª Brigada Mixta | |
Active | March 1937 - March 1939 |
Country | Spanish Republic |
Allegiance | Republican faction |
Branch | Spanish Republican Army |
Type | Infantry |
Size | Brigade |
Engagements | Spanish Civil War |
The 88th Mixed Brigade was a unit of the Spanish Republican Army created during the Spanish Civil War. During most of the war it was deployed on the Córdoba and Extremadura fronts.
History[]
The unit was created in March 1937, based on the anarchist battalions fighting in the Córdoba offensive,[1] as well as the former Andalusia-Extremadura Column.[2] The command of the unit was entrusted to Juan Fernández Pérez.[3] The 88th MB became part of the of the and was assigned to the Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo sector, where she intervened in offensive operations between March 27 and April 13.[4] In August, the artillery commander Francisco Blanco Pedraza took over command of the unit. A few months later, in December, Blanco handed over command of the mixed brigade to militia major Francisco Rodríguez Muñoz, and the unit was incorporated into the , with his command post in Hinojosa del Duque.[4]
In the spring of 1938 it participated in a small offensive in the Azuaga-Granja de Torrehermosa sector,[5] but the attack ended in failure. A few months later, it took part in operations related to the Battle of Merida pocket.[4] At the end of the fighting, the 88th Mixed Brigades moved to cover the defensive line of the Zújar River.[n. 1] On March 27, 1939, with the decomposition of the front and the Republican Army, the brigade dissolved itself.[4]
In the last months of the war, the anarchist was political commissar of the brigade.[7] After the end of the war, Raya became an important leader of the Spanish Maquis in Andalusia,[7] organizing rural and urban guerrillas that acted in the provinces of Málaga, Córdoba and Granada.
Command[]
- Commanders
- Juan Fernández Pérez;
- ;
- Francisco Rodríguez Muñoz
- Commissars
- José Pérez Pareja;
See also[]
- Andalusia-Extremadura Column
- Mixed Brigades
Notes[]
References[]
- ^ Engel 1999, p. 83.
- ^ Moreno Gómez 1985, p. 408.
- ^ Bermúdez 1992, p. 146.
- ^ a b c d Engel 1999, p. 84.
- ^ Moreno Gómez 1985, p. 641.
- ^ Moreno Gómez 1985, p. 658.
- ^ a b Juliá Díaz 2000, p. 103.
Bibliography[]
- Alpert, Michael (1989). El Ejército Republicano en la Guerra Civil (in Spanish). Madrid: Siglo XXI de España. ISBN 84-3230-682-7.
- Bermúdez, Antonio (1992). República y guerra civil: Manzanares (1931-1939) (in Spanish). Diputación Prov. de Ciudad Real.
- Engel, Carlos (1999). Historia de las Brigadas Mixtas del Ejército Popular de la República (in Spanish). Madrid: Almena. ISBN 84-922644-7-0.
- Juliá Díaz, Santos (2000). Violencia política en la España del Siglo XX (in Spanish). Taurus.
- Moreno Gómez, Francisco (1985). La Guerra civil en Córdoba (1936-1939) (in Spanish). Córdoba: Alpuerto.
- Salas Larrazábal, Ramón (2000). Historia del Ejército Popular de la República (in Spanish). La Esfera de los Libros S.L. ISBN 84-9734-465-0.
- Military units and formations established in 1937
- Military units and formations disestablished in 1939
- Mixed Brigades (Spain)
- Militarized anarchist formations