Post by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora (Conrica) on Sept 3, 2011 22:42:03 GMT
Battle of Monte Pelato
Date: August 28, 1936
Location: Near Huesca, Aragon, Spain
Result: Republican victory
The Battle of Monte Pelato ("Bald Mountain") was an engagement of the Spanish Civil War fought on 28 August 1936. It was notable as the first major engagement of the Italian Republican volunteers of the Matteotti Battalion.
The engagement
Monte Pelato, in Aragon, between Huesca and Almudévar, was the site of a Francoist gun emplacement and a concentration of around five hundred Nationalist troops. In bitter fighting from five until nine in the morning, Italians and the Spanish anarchists of the Francisco Ascaso Column seized the Nationalist position while suffering heavy losses.
Amongst those Italian volunteers killed were republican Mario Angeloni, commander of the Column, the anarchist Michele Centrone, the "giellista" Giuseppe Zuddas, the anarchist Fosco Falaschi, the Communist Attilio Papparotto and the anarchist Vincenzo Perrone.
Among those Italians who survived were socialist Carlo Rosselli, anarchists Camillo Berneri, Maria Zazzi, and Leonida Mastrodicasa
Conclusions
The event indicates the important contribution played by the International volunteers, much as George Orwell later wrote. Orwell claimed that it was the actions of the International Brigades which, among other things, prevented a quick Nationalist victory in 1936. From battle victories such as this one, it is clear that we may conclude that these international volunteers did indeed buy the necessary time for the Popular Army to be trained and deployed.
Date: August 28, 1936
Location: Near Huesca, Aragon, Spain
Result: Republican victory
The Battle of Monte Pelato ("Bald Mountain") was an engagement of the Spanish Civil War fought on 28 August 1936. It was notable as the first major engagement of the Italian Republican volunteers of the Matteotti Battalion.
The engagement
Monte Pelato, in Aragon, between Huesca and Almudévar, was the site of a Francoist gun emplacement and a concentration of around five hundred Nationalist troops. In bitter fighting from five until nine in the morning, Italians and the Spanish anarchists of the Francisco Ascaso Column seized the Nationalist position while suffering heavy losses.
Amongst those Italian volunteers killed were republican Mario Angeloni, commander of the Column, the anarchist Michele Centrone, the "giellista" Giuseppe Zuddas, the anarchist Fosco Falaschi, the Communist Attilio Papparotto and the anarchist Vincenzo Perrone.
Among those Italians who survived were socialist Carlo Rosselli, anarchists Camillo Berneri, Maria Zazzi, and Leonida Mastrodicasa
Conclusions
The event indicates the important contribution played by the International volunteers, much as George Orwell later wrote. Orwell claimed that it was the actions of the International Brigades which, among other things, prevented a quick Nationalist victory in 1936. From battle victories such as this one, it is clear that we may conclude that these international volunteers did indeed buy the necessary time for the Popular Army to be trained and deployed.