XV International Brigade Abraham Lincoln Brigade | |
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Active | 1936–1939 |
Country | United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia, France, Belgium, and Cuba |
Allegiance | Spain |
Branch | International Brigades |
Type | Mixed Brigade – Infantry |
Role | Home Defence |
Size | Four battalions: the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th (January 1937) |
Part of | 35th Division (1937–1939) |
Garrison/HQ | Albacete, Barcelona |
Nickname(s) | Brigada Abraham Lincoln |
March | Jarama Valley and Viva la XV Brigada |
Engagements | Spanish Civil War |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Janos Galicz Vladimir Ćopić Robert Hale Merriman Milton Wolff Veli Dedi |
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The Abraham Lincoln Brigade (Spanish: Brigada Abraham Lincoln), officially the XV International Brigade (XV Brigada Internacional), was a mixed brigade that fought for the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War as a part of the International Brigades.
The brigade mustered at Albacete in Spain, in January 1937, comprising mainly English-speaking volunteers – arranged into the mostly British Saklatvala Battalion and the mostly North American Lincoln Battalion. It also included two non-English-speaking battalions, the Balkan Dimitrov Battalion and the Franco-Belgian Sixth February Battalion. It fought at Jarama, Brunete, Boadilla, Belchite, Fuentes de Ebro, Teruel and the Ebro River.
The brigade's songs were "Jarama Valley" and "Viva la Quince Brigada".[1]