2nd Division (Spain)

2nd Division
2.ª División
Military flag of the Popular Army
Active 1936–1939
Country Spain
Branch Spanish Republican Army
Type Infantry division
Role Home Defence
Part of 1st Army Corps (1936 - 1939)
Engagements Spanish Civil War
Commanders
Notable
commanders		 Luis Barceló Jover
Gun emplacement in the Alto del León from the time of the Spanish Civil War.

The 2nd Division (Spanish: 2.ª División)[1] was a division of the Spanish Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War.

This unit took part in the Segovia Offensive in June 1937.

History

The Second Division was established on 31st December 1936 with the militia forces that had been operating in the mountainous area north of Madrid. During the Segovia Offensive it carried out a diversionary attack in the Alto del León led by Lt. Colonel Luis Barceló.[2]

During the rest of the war it stayed in the same relatively inactive mountain front and was finally disbanded on 27 March 1939.[3]

Order of Battle

Date
Army Corps
Mixed Brigades
Battlefront
December 19361st Army Corps29th, 27th and 31stCenter
December 19371st Army Corps29th, 27th and 31stCenter
April 19381st Army Corps29th, 27th and 34thCenter

Leaders

Commanders
Commissar
Chief of Staff
  • Engineering Captain Juan Manzano Porqueres;

See also

Bibliography

  • Alpert, Michael (1989); El Ejército Republicano en la Guerra Civil, Siglo XXI de España, Madrid. ISBN 978-84-323-0682-2
  • Engel Masoliver, Carlos (1999); Historia de las Brigadas mixtas del Ejército popular de la República, 1936-1939, Editorial Almena, Madrid, 1999 ISBN 84-96170-19-5.
  • Romero Salvadó, Francisco J. (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8009-2.
  • Thomas, Hugh (1976); Historia de la Guerra Civil Española. Círculo de Lectores, Barcelona. ISBN 84-226-0874-X.
  • Zaragoza, Cristóbal (1983). Ejército Popular y Militares de la República, 1936-1939. Barcelona: Ed. Planeta.

References

  1. ↑ Carlos Engel, Historia de las Brigadas Mixtas del E. P. de la República, 1999
  2. ↑ Thomas 1976, p. 743.
  3. ↑ Engel 1999.
  4. ↑ Zaragoza 1983, p. 285.
  5. ↑ Alpert 2013, p. 345.
  6. ↑ Romero Salvadó 2013, p. 72.
  7. 1 2 Engel 1999, p. 198.
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