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Hernández, courtly, old-line army officer who looks like Charles the Fifth, conducts the siege of the Alcázar, treats his enemies chivalrously, is executed when Toledo is captured. On a ridge outside the city the prisoners are shot, three at a time, somersaulting backwards into a ditch, Hernández reflecting in a pain-filled, embarrassed silence that they line up stiffly like people having their pictures taken...
...coast "so placed that they could drop shells in Gibraltar but yet are invisible from the highest point on the rock": nine naval-type guns are located on Punta Carnero, on the west side of Gibraltar bay, and at least one 15-inch weapon on a high peak near Alcála de los Gazules, some 40 miles inland; 45 more guns, ranging in size from six to 15 inches, have been set up in Spanish Morocco, on the African coastline directly across from the fortress...
...garrison, who have written one of the most exciting pages in their country's modern history, lined up in front of the Generalissimo, a dumpy little chief in a tasseled forage cap. Down the line he went, kissing each man and clasping him hard. Then out stepped the Alcázar's heroic Commandant, bearded, emaciated Colonel José Moscardó. The circles under his eyes were greenish black and he trembled as he walked. "Colonel José Moscardó," said the White Generalissimo, "I confer upon you the Cross of San Fernando, and I confer this same...
...Alcázar's 1,400 cadets and soldiers under obstinate Commandant José Moscardó had withstood Red Militia assaults for the whole period of the Civil War. Against the six-foot walls of the Alcázar more than 6,000 four-inch projectiles and more than 4,000 six-inchers had been vainly fired by the Madrid Cabinet's untrained proletarian artillery. The Government's trained miners had failed to blow up the Alcázar's rock foundations with dynamite charges totaling four tons. Futile were thousands of gallons of gasoline shot...
...finally won, Spain's young West Pointers were found to be not the half-starved "human scarecrows" the Madrid radio had been calling them, but adequately nourished and mostly wearing beards that had grown during the 71 days of the siege. Of 1,800 persons in the Alcázar, including white women and children who had taken refuge with the Cadets, only 80 were found to have lost their lives and only 500 had suffered wounds of various sorts, though the entire upper structure of the Alcázar had been pounded to jagged chunks. Never could even...