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To: Homer_J_Simpson
It would be interesting to see where some of these places are, so I went looking for maps of the Spanish Civil War. Below is the best I could do, and it doesn't show where "today's" actions took place...

"The Spanish Republicans’ offensive across the Ebro River is still making headway, although its progress has slowed down in the last forty-eight hours.

"The Republicans yesterday reached positions a few miles north of Gandesa, about twelve miles south of the Ebro."


3 posted on 07/30/2008 5:04:50 PM PDT by BroJoeK (A little historical perspective....)
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To: BroJoeK

Very cool! Thanks. I checked out a current road map of Spain and found just about all the place names mentioned in the article. They are all found on the road that runs from Tortosa to Saragossa. Since your map shows that area already in Insurgent hands in May ‘38 the fighting described in this story must have been a rear-guard, last-ditch sort of action.


4 posted on 07/30/2008 8:45:23 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (For events that occurred in 1938, real time is 1938, not 2008.)
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