Huesca Offensive

Huesca Offensive
Part of the Spanish Civil War

Republican forces on the outskirts of Huesca, September 1936
Date12 June–19 June 1937
Location
Result Nationalist victory[1]
Belligerents
 Spanish Republic
International Brigades
 Nationalist Spain
Commanders and leaders
Second Spanish Republic Sebastián Pozas
Máté Zalka 
 
Units involved

Army of the East

 
Strength
   
Casualties and losses
9,000 casualties  

The Huesca Offensive was an operation carried out during the Spanish Civil War by the Republican Army in June 1937 in order to take the Aragonese city of Huesca, which since the start of the war in July 1936 had been under the control of the Nationalist forces.

  1. ^ Beevor, Antony. The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. 2006. pages 347 and 429