88th Mixed Brigade

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88th Mixed Brigade
88.ª Brigada Mixta
ActiveMarch 1937 - March 1939
Country Spanish Republic
AllegianceRepublican faction
BranchRed star.svg Spanish Republican Army
TypeInfantry
SizeBrigade
EngagementsSpanish 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[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ At the end of 1938 it was added to the "F" column commanded by .[6]

References[]

  1. ^ Engel 1999, p. 83.
  2. ^ Moreno Gómez 1985, p. 408.
  3. ^ Bermúdez 1992, p. 146.
  4. ^ a b c d Engel 1999, p. 84.
  5. ^ Moreno Gómez 1985, p. 641.
  6. ^ Moreno Gómez 1985, p. 658.
  7. ^ 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.
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