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I went for a hike today and visited a memorial to partisans who were killed in an area near Austrian border, close to the end of war. Interestingly two of the dead were Spaniards, most likely Republicans who fled the Spain at the fall of Catalonia and somehow escaped the French internement camps...

Both sides were eliminating the remaining enemy enclaves, there was also siege of Oviedo and Gijon at the same time, tying down Republican forces, but Alcazar was especially lauded by Nationalist propagandists even before relief force reached them, as it was relatively close to Madrid, thus...

One interesting fact about the siege, Alcazar also had stables, horses were slaughtered for food during the siege, except one, which they kept alive in hope of relief, so their commander could ride out to greet the relief force. However, due to rubble everywhere Moscardo decided to meet Varela...