Cards historical texts

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#	Card name	Historical text
217	Cañón Ansaldo de 75 mm	1906 cannon of Italian origin.
218	Mando único	For the Communist Party the priority is winning the war, with revolution coming later. Discipline and hierarchy are some of the basis for this strategy.
219	Manuel Hedilla	Interim Head of the Board of Command of the Spanish Falange in September 1936 and national chief of the National Council in April 1937. Accused of conspiring against General Franco, he is sentenced to death, the sentence later being commuted.
220	Gernikako Arbola	Symbol of the Basque code of law, located next to the Boards House at Guernica.
221	Obús Schneider de 155 mm	Howitzer model 1917. Regulation in the Spanish army before the civil war, is used by both sides.
222	Federica Montseny	Minister of Health and Welfare between 1936 and 1937. Chairwoman of the UGT-CNT committee. Propaganda Secretary at the National Committee of the CNT. Peninsular committee member of FAI. Exiled, she returns to Spain in 1977.
223	Columna Libertad	PSUC column.
224	22º Batallón de Zaragoza *	[no text]
225	Enseya	Catalan nationalism is put forward as a reason for the uprising by the Nationalists, but there are big differences about the Catalan issue within the Republic itself.
226	Conde de Rodezno	Tomas Dominguez Arevalo. Member of Congress. Member of the National Traditionalist Spanish Falange de las JONS in 1937. Minister of Justice in the first government of General Franco in 1938.
227	Semana Santa	"We would be the first to regret that irresponsible autocracy of a parliament were to be replaced by the most terrible dictatorship uprooted from the nation." Collective letter of the Spanish bishops, July 1st 1937.
228	Comandante García Valiño	Quickly promoted to lieutenant colonel and colonel. Head of the 1st Division of Navarre and later head of the Army of the Maestrazgo. Promoted to general in 1938.
229	Batallón Lincoln	Integrated by Americans. Part of the 15th International Brigade. Over two thousand Americans fight in the International Brigades.
230	Cruzada	The civil war is presented in Nationalist Spain as a true crusade of liberation.
231	Cañón Schneider de 75 mm	Gun model 1906. Regulation in the Spanish army before the civil war, is used by both sides.
232	España resucita	The new regime provides a symbolism which assimilates the symbols of its different factions. The cry of "Spain One, Great and Free" refers to the demise of nationalism, the imperial past and to the absence of foreign meddling.
233	Batallón de la Joven Guardia	Battalion of the United Socialists Youth.
234	Ramiro Ledesma Ramos	Founder of the JONS (Boards of National Syndicalist Offensive), merged with Spanish Falange of which was the affiliate number 1. Executed in Madrid.
235	Esteban Bilbao	Member of Congress. Member of the National Traditionalist Spanish Falange de las JONS in 1937.
236	Unidad sindical	In March 1938 a resolution of unity of action is adopted by the two largest unions, the UGT (Socialist) and the CNT (anarchist).
237	Juan Peiró	Minister of Industry between 1936 and 1937. Executed.
238	5º Tabor del GFRI Ceuta *	[no text]
239	Unión Femenina Republicana	"[..] Marriage is founded on equal rights for both sexes, and may be dissolved by mutual consent or at the request of either spouse, [..]" Constitution of the Second Republic, Article 43.
240	135º Batallón de Zamora *	[no text]
241	Memoria de José Calvo Sotelo	Member of Congress and leader of the Nationalist Bloc, which comprises Alfonsine and Carlist monarchists, murdered on July 13th 1936, shortly before the start of the war, in retaliation for the assassination of socialist Lt. Castillo of the Assault Guards.
242	El Alcázar de Toledo	When the sorrounding area is still under the control of the Republic, in the Alcazar of Toledo a small number of Nationalists forces resist until the arrival of the liberating forces of Varela on September 29th 1936.
243	Crédito	The royal family follows the development of the civil war in Spain from its exile in Rome.
244	Batallón Malatesta	Known as 'Battalion of Death'. Formed by Italian anarchists residing in France, it is annihilated in Huesca. More than four thousand five hundred Italians fight in the International Brigades.
245	Mohamed Ben Mizzian	One of the first to cross the strait in command of the 2nd Regular Tabor of Alhucemas. Commander at the beginning of the war, he is later promoted to colonel while commanding the 1st Brigade of the 83rd Division.
246	Camarada Goya	José María Alonso Goya, board member of the Spanish University Union (SEU) is killed in April 1937 during fights within the Spanish Falange.
247	Homenaje	The death in combat of Durruti at the university campus in Madrid in November 1936 makes him a martyr for the anarchist movement.
248	Francisco Largo Caballero	Leader of the most revolutionary wing of the PSOE. Member of Congress. Prime Minister and Minister of War between 1936 and 1937. In May 1937 he is ousted from power in the General Workers Union for refusing to cooperate with the Communist Party. Dead in exile.
249	Devoción	"War is thus like an armed plebiscite. The white fight that were the elections in February 1936 in which the lack of political awareness from the national government gave an arbitrary triumph to the revolutionary forces who had failed at the ballot box became, by the civil-military fight in the bloody struggle of a people divided in two tendencies: the spiritual [..] and the materialistic [..]." Collective letter of the Spanish bishops, July 1st 1937.
250	Herois	Catalunya fights to defend its statute. Barcelona is conquered on January 26th 1939.
251	Brigada Mixta 2	7th Division, later in the 10th, the 59th (1st division of Asturias) and the 64th divisions. Organized in Ciudad Real in October 1936, participating in the defense of Madrid and at the battle of Brunete.
252	General Mola	Risen up in Pamplona with the collaboration of the Requetes. Organizer of the uprising, known as 'The Director'. Head of the Northern Army. Killed in a plane crash.