• in the 1936 Siege of the Alcázar, around 1000 Spanish Nationalists in Toledo held a medieval castle for two months despite aerial and artillery bombardments and a sustained assault by 8000 Republican troops?
• out of 281 T-26 tanks supplied to the Popular Front (example pictured), the Nationalists were able to capture 178 during the war, putting at least 50 into service against their former users?
• during the Spanish Civil War, Eduard Pons Prades forged his age so that he could join the Republican army at age 16?
• Nationalist commanders offered 500 pesetas for each T-26 Spanish Army tank captured from the Popular Front during the Spanish Civil War?
• Archbishop of Toledo Pedro Segura y Sáenz had to leave the city during the Spanish Civil War, because he denounced the Republican government and extolled monarchy?
• Ken Loach's 1995 film Land and Freedom tells the story of a British volunteer who joins the POUM militia and fights for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War?
• Spanish anarchist Joan Peiró served as Minister of Industry in the Spanish government, and was later executed by the government of Francisco Franco?

Facts on topics related to Second Spanish Republic

History of Spain

• the final decades of Visigothic rule in Spain have been labelled "protofeudal" by Spanish historians, but this label has been largely rejected in English historiography?

Francisco Franco

• Spanish anarchist Joan Peiró served as Minister of Industry in the Spanish government, and was later executed by the government of Francisco Franco?
• Generalissimo Francisco Franco lifted the exile of Francisco Vidal y Barraquer, a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, only after reaching a concordat with the Vatican?
• Spanish Republican guerillas held out in the mountains of the Maestrazgo in eastern Spain, against General Franco's forces until the mid 1950s?
• Cassià Maria Just was one of the Catholic Church members in Spain who showed their opposition to Francisco Franco?
• Ramon Vila Capdevila continued to fight against the government of Francisco Franco for 24 years after the end of the Spanish Civil War?