Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week began, the armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco moved on Barcelona from three sides...
From the south one force drove up the narrow shore line to Sitjes and beyond. Barcelona was 15 miles away. From the northwest another column came down on Manresa. Barcelona was 30 miles away, but this force was headed toward the sea north of the Loyalist capital in an apparent effort to encircle the city, cut it off from France. The western attackers reached Martorell. Barcelona was 10 miles away...
...western force were to take the mountains that lie immediately above and behind Barcelona, and if the southern column were to take the fortress of Montjuich. which lies on a promontory that commands Barcelona from the sea side, the city had small chance of holding out. Madrid has held out for two and a half years. But Madrid stands like a fort on a plain. Barcelona lies defenseless...
HENDAYE--Men and women tonight worked feverishly on concrete gun pits and barricades in Barcelona's streets preparing to fight it out with Insurgent columns moving upon the town of Martorell, barely 10 miles from the capital's suburbs...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco's guns blasting a path into the city filled Barcelona with a constant rumble, drowned out at hourly intervals by his bombers which swept upon the city in relays and took and estimated 100 casualties in 12 raids...