The Siege of Madrid was a three-year siege of the Spanish capital city of Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939. Madrid was held by various forces loyal to the Second Spanish Republic and was besieged by Spanish Nationalist and allied troops under Francisco Franco. The Battle of Madrid in November 1936 was the most concentrated fighting in the city, when the Nationalists made their most determined attempt to take Madrid. The city, besieged from October 1936, eventually fell to the Nationalists on 28 March 1939.
Read more about Siege Of Madrid: Uprising - Madrid Held For The Republic (July 1936), Nationalist "Drive On Madrid" (August–October 1936), Battles Around Madrid (1937), Infighting, Fall of Madrid (1938-March 1939)
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—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)