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| rdfs:comment | - Earlier that year, Nationalists forces had overrun Aragon, reached the Mediterranean shore at Vinaroz on 15 April, spread along some 40 miles of seashore and cut the Republican-held territory into two. The Ebro River became the boundary between the newly-captured Nationalist territory to its south and the remaining Republican Catalonia to its north.
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| Strength | - 22
- 27
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- 500
- 80000
- 90000
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- Beevor: 150 guns
- Thomas:70-80 field batteries
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| Date | - --07-25
- July - December, 1938
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| Commander | - Francisco Franco
- Enrique Líster
- Juan Modesto
- Juan Yagüe
- Vicente Rojo Lluch
- Rafael García Valiño
- Etelvino Vega
- Fernando Barron
- Fidel Davila
- Manuel Tagüeña
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| Caption | - Republican troops crossing the Ebro River
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| Casualties | - 80
- 5000
- 19563
- 20000
- 30000
- Beevor: 30,000 dead
- Jackson: 10,000
- Jackson: 5,000
- Preston: 6,100 dead
- Preston: 7,150 dead
- Thomas: 10,000-15,000 dead
- Thomas: 6,500 dead
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| Result | - Decisive Nationalist victory
- Republican victory
- Decisive Nationalist victory, territory loyal to the Spanish Republic split in two, backbone of the Republican Army broken
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| combatant | - 22
- Condor Legion
- International Brigades
- Nationalist Spain
- Aviazione Legionaria
- Second Spanish Republic
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| Place | - Lower Ebro, Spain
- Terra Alta and Lower Matarranya, Spain
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| Conflict | |
| abstract | - Earlier that year, Nationalists forces had overrun Aragon, reached the Mediterranean shore at Vinaroz on 15 April, spread along some 40 miles of seashore and cut the Republican-held territory into two. The Ebro River became the boundary between the newly-captured Nationalist territory to its south and the remaining Republican Catalonia to its north. The decision to launch a counter-offensive was motivated not only by military considerations, but also by trying to gather international support and prove that the Republic was still an effective fighting force. While the offensive initially caught the Nationalists by surprise, the superior material resources, especially the complete aerial superiority of the Nationalists and their German and Italian allies, halted and bogged down Republicans. The fighting dragged on until the end of October when the Nationalists counter-attacked and threw the Republicans back across the Ebro. Soon afterwards they crossed the river themselves and conquered Catalonia and its capital Barcelona. The fall of Madrid and Valencia and the end of the Republic followed.
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