Battle of the Sierra Guadalupe

Battle of the Sierra Guadalupe
Part of the Spanish Civil War
Date17–31 August 1936
Location
Result Nationalist victory
Belligerents
Spain Spanish Republic
Air Squadron "Spain"
Spain Nationalist rebels
Commanders and leaders
Spain Maj. Gen. José Riquelme y López-Bago
André Malraux
Lt. Col. Juan Yagüe
Lt. Col. Carlos Asensio
Lt. Col. Antonio Castejón
Lt. Col. Heliodoro Rolando de Tella
Strength
9,000 soldiers and militia
5–7 aircraft
4,000 regulares
Casualties and losses
high low

The Battle of the Sierra Guadalupe (English: Guadalupe Mountains), also known as the Tagus Campaign, was a continuation of the Nationalist Army's race north toward Madrid in the early stages of the Spanish Civil War. In mid-late August 1936, the three Regulares columns of General Yagüe's Army of Africa dashed through the Sierra de Guadalupe Mountains, also known as Sierra de Villuercas, in central Spain and forded across the Tagus River, capturing several towns and routing the Republicans in a succession of rapid advances.