| 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad | |
|---|---|
 Regimental insignia | |
| Active | 13 May 1943 – 9 May 1945 |
| Country |  France |
| Allegiance | .svg){kind=small} Free French Forces |
| Role | Mechanized Infantry |
| Size | ~160 |
| Part of | Régiment de marche du Tchad, 2nd Armoured Brigade |
| Nickname(s) | La Nueve, La Española |
| Engagements | Second World War: Falaise Pocket (1944) Paris (1944) Lorraine Campaign (1944) Colmar Pocket (1945) |
| Commanders | |
| Captain | Raymond Dronne |
| Spanish Officer | Amado Granell |
The 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad, part of the French 2nd Armored Division (also known as Division Leclerc) was nicknamed La Nueve (Spanish for "the nine"). The company consisted of 160 men under French command, 146 of whom were Spanish republicans[1] including many anarchists,[2][3][4] and French soldiers. All had fought during the liberation of French North Africa, and later participated in the Liberation of France.
The 9th Company's most notable military accomplishment was its important role in the Liberation of Paris. Men of La Nueve were the first to enter the French capital on the evening of 24 August 1944,[5][6] with half-tracks bearing the names of the Spanish Civil War battles of Teruel and Guadalajara, and accompanied by engineering personnel and three tanks, Montmirail, Champaubert and Romilly, from the 501e Régiment de chars de combat.[2][7]
- ^ Lapeyre, Francis (10 December 2008). "Evelyn Mesquida présente son livre à la librairie espagnole de Paris". YouTube. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016.
- ^ a b Dronne, Raymond (1984). Carnets de route d'un croisé de la France libre, Volume 1. France-Empire. p. 251.
- ^ Mesquida, Evelyn (2011). La Nueve, 24 août 1944 : ces Républicains espagnols qui ont libéré Paris. Le Cherche-Midi. ISBN 978-2749140872.
- ^ Marquardt, Alberto (2009). "La Nueve. Libération de Paris par la II DB". Vimeo (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-11.
- ^ Gaspar, Celaya, Diego (2011-12-15). "Portrait d'oubliés. L'engagement des Espagnols dans les Forces françaises libres, 1940-1945". Revue historique des armées (in French) (265): 46–55. ISSN 0035-3299.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Jornet, José (2007-10-01). "Il était une fois la République espagnole…". Les Cahiers de Framespa (in French) (3). doi:10.4000/framespa.442. ISSN 1760-4761.
- ^ Jean-François., Muracciole (2013). La Libération de Paris : 19-26 août 1944. Paris: Tallandier. pp. 214 onwards. ISBN 9782847347418. OCLC 858232579.