117th Mixed Brigade

117th Mixed Brigade 117.ª Brigada Mixta April 1937 – January 1939 Spanish Republic Republican faction 17px Spanish Republican Army Infantry Brigade 25th Division Spanish Civil War The 117th Mixed Brigade was a unit of the Spanish Republican Army created during the Spanish Civil War. History The 117th Mixed Brigade was created on April 28, 1937, from the 2nd Regiment of the old South Ebro Column. It was incorporated into the newly created 25th Division.Zaragoza 1983 59Maldonado 2007 170 In June 1937, it participated in the Huesca Offensive.Engel 1999 106 A few months later it took part in the Battle of Belchite. On August 25, together with the 32nd and 131st mixed brigades, it took the railway station.Michonneau 2017 33 The brigades then made a pincer movement around Belchite, surrounding it from both ends.Michonneau 2017 33-34 The 117th MB also took the bullring and some houses.Maldonado 2007 215 In the following days the unit captured the "Romanico" position, the electricity transformer and the Belchite water tank. After the fighting ended, on September 6 it received an order to withdraw and move to Lécera.Engel 1999 106 In December 1937, it participated in the Battle of Teruel, attacking in the area of the cemetery.Maldonado 2007 252 Although the brigade came to take the first nationalist trenches, the general attempt ended in failure. The 117th MB would also see action during the Battle of Alfambra, although its participation was a disaster: on February 21, 1938, it withdrew from the front, completely demoralized after an aerial bombardment.Engel 1999 106 saw action during the Aragon Offensive and, later, during the Levante Offensive. In January 1939, it was sent by ship to Catalunya, as a reinforcement of the republican forces deployed there. It was by then under the command of Bartolomé Palazón Blaya. However, its intervention would be null and void and it joined the republican retreat towards France.Engel 1999 106 Command Commanders Agustín Barrios Corredera; Joaquín Fran; J. Carreras; Bartolomé Palazón Blaya Commissars Sebastián Badía Antiñana See also Mixed Brigades South Ebro Column References Bibliography Engel Carlos 1999 Historia de las Brigadas Mixtas del Ejército Popular de la República Madrid Almena 84-922644-7-0 es Maldonado José María 2007 El frente de Aragón. La Guerra Civil en Aragón (1936-1938) Mira Editores es Michonneau Stéphane 2017 Fue ayer: Belchite. Un pueblo frente a la cuestión del pasado Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza es Salas Larrazábal Ramón 2000 Historia del Ejército Popular de la República La Esfera de los Libros 84-9734-465-0 es Zaragoza Cristóbal 1983 Ejército Popular y Militares de la República, 1936-1939 Barcelona Ed. Planeta es expanded Category:Military units and formations established in 1937 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1939 Category:Mixed Brigades (Spain)