![]() ![]() On April the 1st the Republican Army surrendered in all Spain. Madrid, around November 1936.įranco’s troops entered Madrid on March the 28th 1939 after the surrender of the republican forces of colonel Segismundo Casado who made a coup against the communist forces opposed to surrendering. ![]() Here we see him with a Moroccan djellaba in a town in the Madrid frontline during the Spanish Civil War. In the picture, the final offensive of the revolted troops against the republican Madrid was leaded by general José Enrique Varela Iglesias. On march the 24th 1951 he died in Tangier (Morocco). ![]() In 1942 Franco accepted his resign as minister and in 1945 he was appointed High Commissioner of Spain in Morocco. Once the war ended he was designated minister of the army in general Francisco Franco’s first government, though political differences with him made him friendlier to the allies. He took part preparing the military coup of July the 18th 1936, that initiated the civil war. He recovered his freedom two years later and was promoted to the rank of general. Of traditional ideology he revolted in 1932 against the republic formed in 1931 and he was arrested for it. Son of a military, he fought in the colonial war in the north of Morocco, then a Spanish colony, and was granted the most honored medal in Spain, the Cruz Laureada de San Fernando. General José Enrique Varela, one of the most important generals in Franco’s army during the civil war, was born in San Fernando (Cádiz) on April the 17th 1891 and commanded the national offensive against Madrid in 1936. ![]()
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