Word: generalisimo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the week's solemn pageantry, the details had been planned well in advance−many of them by Franco himself. After the funeral Mass in Madrid's packed Plaza de Oriente, his coffin was escorted from the palace by the red-bereted Guardia del Generalisimo, marching on each side of the casket, to the Arch of Victory a mile away. There the body was transferred from a horse-drawn gun carriage to a hearse for the 29-mile drive north along the Coruña highway to the Valley of the Fallen, the grim memorial...
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