![]() ![]() Along the Segre the Nationalists deployed Muñoz Grandes's Army of Urgel, Garcia Valiño's Army of Maestrazgo and Moscardo's Aragon Army in the confluence of the Segre with the Ebro Gambara's Italian Cuerpo Legionario Italiano of four divisions (55,000 men) and Solchaga's Army Corps of Navarra and in the Ebro the Yagüe's Moroccan Corps. The Nationalists assembled their best divisions all along the front from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean. Opposing forces Nationalists Īt the beginning of December, the nationalist faction concentrated an Army Group, the Army of the North, of 300,000 –340,000 men led by the general Fidel Dávila in order to conquer Catalonia. ![]() France had closed the frontier again in mid-June 1938 and frozen Republican financial assets in French banks. Furthermore, after the Munich Agreement, the hope of an intervention of the Western democracies in order to aid the Republic against Germany and Italy vanished. On the other hand, the Nationalists received new supplies of ammunition, weapons and aircraft from Germany. Furthermore, in October 1938 the Republican government agreed to withdraw the volunteers of the International Brigades. The Republicans had lost most of their armament and experienced units. Franco closed the border with France by 10 February 1939.Īfter its defeat at the Battle of the Ebro the Republican Army was broken and would never recover. Thousands of people fleeing the Nationalists also crossed the frontier in the following month, to be placed in internment camps. The Republican government headed for the French border. Barcelona was captured on 26 January 1939. ![]() The Nationalist Army started the offensive on 23 December 1938 and rapidly conquered Republican-held Catalonia with Barcelona (the Republic's capital city from October 1937). The Catalonia Offensive ( Catalan: Ofensiva de Catalunya, Spanish: Ofensiva de Cataluña) was part of the Spanish Civil War. Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza. ![]()
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