American Commander In Spain

Author : Marion Merriman,Warren Lerude
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781948908757

Get Book

American Commander in Spain by Marion Merriman,Warren Lerude Pdf

The Spanish Civil War (1936—1939) was a confrontation between supporters of Spain's democratically elected Republic—including peasants, communists, union workers, and anarchists—and an alliance of nationalist Army rebels and upper-class forces, including the Catholic Church and landlords, led by General Francisco Franco. In the political climate of the time, this civil war became the focus of foreign interests advocating conflicting ideas of democracy and fascism. Spain became a training ground where Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy tested military techniques intended for use in a yet to be declared wider world war. Although most Western nations embraced a neutrality pact, individual volunteers from around the world, including the United States, made their way to Spain to support the Republican cause. Among the Americans was Robert Hale Merriman, a scholar who had been studying international economics in Europe. He and his wife, Marion, joined volunteers from fifty-four countries in International Brigades. Merriman became the first commander of the Americans; Abraham Lincoln Battalion and a leader among the International Brigades. Now available in a new paperback edition, American Commander in Spain is based on Merriman and Marion's diaries and personal correspondence, Marion's own service at his side in Spain, as well as Warren Lerude's extensive research and interviews with people who knew Merriman and Marion, government records, and contemporary news reports. This critically acclaimed work is both the biography of a remarkable man who combined his idealism with life-risking action to fight fascism threatening Europe and Marion's vivid first-hand account of life in Spain during the civil war that became a prologue to the Second World War.

Author : William Loren Katz,Marc Crawford
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620329016

Get Book

The Lincoln Brigade by William Loren Katz,Marc Crawford Pdf

THE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism. Ultimately, twenty-eight hundred United States volunteers reached Spain to become the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Few Lincolns had any military training. More than half were seriously wounded or died in battle. Most Lincolns were activists and idealists who had worked with and demonstrated for the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression. They were poets and blue-collar workers, professors and students, seamen and journalists, lawyers and painters, Christians and Jews, blacks and whites. The Brigade was the first fully integrated United States army, and Oliver Law, an African American from Texas, was an early Lincoln commander. William Loren Katz and the late Marc Crawford twice traveled with the Brigade to Spain in the 1980s, interviewed surviving Lincolns on old battlefields, and obtained never-before-published documents and photographs for this book.

Author : Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469640808

Get Book

Bernardo de Gálvez by Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia Pdf

Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance against Britain. Led by Bernardo de Galvez, supreme commander of the Spanish forces in North America, their military campaigns against British settlements on the Mississippi River—and later against Mobile and Pensacola—were crucial in preventing Britain from concentrating all its North American military and naval forces on the fight against George Washington's Continental army. In this first comprehensive biography of Galvez (1746@–86), Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia assesses the commander's considerable historical impact and expands our understanding of Spain's contribution to the war. A man of both empire and the Enlightenment, as viceroy of New Spain (1785@–86), Galvez was also pivotal in the design and implementation of Spanish colonial reforms, which included the reorganization of Spain's Northern Frontier that brought peace to the region for the duration of the Spanish presence in North America. Extensively researched through Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. archives, Quintero Saravia's portrait of Galvez reveals him as central to the histories of the Revolution and late eighteenth-century America and offers a reinterpretation of the international factors involved in the American War for Independence.

Author : Anthony Sparrowhawk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : African American civil rights workers
ISBN : 0995676607

Get Book

Oliver Law by Anthony Sparrowhawk Pdf

Who was Oliver Law? A landmark in his day. The first African-American officer to command white troops in combat. But was he more than that? As a young man he took part in the quite extraordinary militancy of the US Communist Party in Chicago in the 1930s. He was killed in Spain in 1937. Was he murdered by his own troops? How much of his story is communist propaganda? This is an attempt to answer these questions and restore Oliver Law to his rightful place in African-American history.--Back cover.

Author : Hank Rubin,Peter N. Carroll
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809323176

Get Book

Spain's Cause Was Mine by Hank Rubin,Peter N. Carroll Pdf

In 1937, Hank Rubin, a 20-year-old pre-med student volunteered for service in the International Brigades fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War. In this memoir, Rubin recalls the heroics and suffereing he witnessed as well as the disappointing treatment he received upon his return.

Author : Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Pensacola (Fla.)
ISBN : 1469640813

Get Book

Bernardo de Gálvez by Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia Pdf

Author : Henry Watterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086292851

Get Book

History of the Spanish-American War by Henry Watterson Pdf

Author : French Ensor Chadwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023505394

Get Book

The Relations of the United States and Spain: the Spanish-American War by French Ensor Chadwick Pdf

Author : Peter N. Carroll
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0804722773

Get Book

The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade by Peter N. Carroll Pdf

Looks at the role of the United States in the Spanish Civil War

Author : Cecil D. Eby
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271029108

Get Book

Comrades and Commissars by Cecil D. Eby Pdf

In the summer of 1936, Generalissimo Francisco Franco led a group of right-wing nationalists in a military attack on the Republican government of Spain&—the start of what would become the Spanish Civil War. Despite U.S. laws banning participation in foreign conflicts, American volunteers began pouring into Barcelona in January 1937. The most famous of these anti-Franco groups was the band of 2,800 American fighters who called themselves the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. In Comrades and Commissars, Cecil D. Eby pushes beyond the bias that has dominated study of the Lincoln Battalion and gets to the very heart of the American experience in Spain. Controversy has plagued the Lincoln Battalion from the very start. Were these men selfless defenders of liberty or un-American Communists? Eby has long been regarded as one of the few balanced interpreters of their history. His 1969 book, Between the Bullet and the Lie, won accolades for its rigorous and fair treatment of the Battalion. Comrades and Commissars builds upon that earlier study, incorporating a wealth of information collected over intervening decades. New oral histories, previously untranslated memoirs, and newly declassified official documents all lend even greater authority and perspective to Eby&’s account. Most significant is Eby&’s use of Lincoln Battalion archives sequestered in a Moscow storeroom for sixty years. These papers draw renewed focus on some of the most provocative questions surrounding the Battalion, including the extent to which Americans were persecuted&—and even executed&—by the brigade commissariat. The Americans who served in the Lincoln Battalion were neither mythic figures nor political abstractions. Poorly trained and equipped, they committed themselves to back-to-the-wall defense of the doomed Spanish Republic. In Comrades and Commissars, we at last have the authoritative account of their experiences.

Author : Ivan Musicant
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0805035001

Get Book

Empire by Default by Ivan Musicant Pdf

The definitive version of the Spanish-American War as well as a dramatic account of America's emergence as a global power.

Author : Major Jose I. Yaniz
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782897637

Get Book

The Role Of Spain In The American Revolution: An Unavoidable Strategic Mistake by Major Jose I. Yaniz Pdf

Spain played a significant role in the outcome of the American Revolution by providing economic support and opening war fronts to fight the British in Europe and North America. Spain’s support for the revolutionaries was a strategic mistake for its government, for it was not in Spain’s national interests as a colonial power to do this. Neither France nor Spain helped the North American colonies to gain independence from Great Britain for altruistic reasons. Instead, both countries were eager to retaliate against Great Britain, which had become the undisputed global power after these countries’ defeat in the Seven Years War...However, Spain, unlike France, still possessed extended and rich territories throughout the two American continents. This caused Spain to cautiously approach involvement in the American Revolution. Being a colonial power like Britain, Spain did not want the seed of independence to spread throughout its own colonies; therefore the country never officially recognized U.S. independence during the time of the American Revolution. Instead, and as a result of the Bourbon Family Compact with France, Spain declared war on Great Britain in 1779, but it would never fight within the Thirteen Colonies. Nevertheless, and despite the inherent risk, Spanish ports were opened to American ships, and Spain provided, initially by secret means through Paris and New Orleans and later on in a more straight way, financial support to the American cause in the form of money and supplies since 1776. Spanish money also financed expeditions such as De Grasse’s Fleet in 1781 and the Washington’s army on its march to the south that were decisive in the Yorktown victory. Moreover, Spain fought the British in the Spanish areas of interest, including West Florida, Central America, the Caribbean, and Europe, thereby opening several fronts which the British could not simultaneously manage, and threatening vital sea lines of communications of the global naval power.

Author : Bradley Folsom
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806158235

Get Book

Arredondo by Bradley Folsom Pdf

In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776–1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during the Mexican War of Independence, contended with attacks by revolutionaries, U.S. citizens, generals who had served in Napoleon’s army, pirates, and various American Indian groups, all attempting to wrest control of the region. Often resorting to violence to deal with the provinces’ problems, Arredondo was for ten years the most powerful official in northeastern New Spain. Folsom’s lively account shows the challenges of governing a vast and inhospitable region and provides insight into nineteenth-century military tactics and Spanish viceregal realpolitik. When Arredondo and his army—which included Arredondo’s protégé, future president of Mexico Antonio López de Santa Anna—arrived in Nuevo Santander in 1811, they quickly suppressed a revolutionary upheaval. Arredondo went on to expel an army of revolutionaries and invaders from the United States who had taken over Texas and declared it an independent republic. In the Battle of Medina, the bloodiest battle ever fought in Texas, he crushed the insurgents and followed his victory with a purge that reduced Texas’s population by half. Over the following eight years, Arredondo faced fresh challenges to Spanish sovereignty ranging from Comanche and Apache raids to continued American incursion. In response, Arredondo ignored his superiors and ordered his soldiers to terrorize those who disagreed with him. Arredondo’s actions had dramatic repercussions in Texas, Mexico, and the United States. His decision to allow Moses Austin to colonize Texas with Americans would culminate in the defeat of Santa Anna in 1836, but not before Santa Anna had made good use of the lessons in brutality he had learned so well from his mentor.

Author : Christon I. Archer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0842024697

Get Book

The Wars of Independence in Spanish America by Christon I. Archer Pdf

This volume of readings examines the revolutions, civil wars, guerrilla struggles, insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, and interventions of this period. Offering a solid perspective on the Independence period, The Wars of Independence is an excellent text for Latin American survey courses and courses focusing on the colonial era.

Author : James Yates
Publisher : Open Hand Publishing, LLC
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0940880202

Get Book

Mississippi to Madrid by James Yates Pdf

From his birth to a sharecropper family in the cotton fields of Mississippi to the unrest in Chicago and New York during the Depression, James Yates' experience with labor protest and union organizing shaped his vision of freedom and led to his decision to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War.