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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Military personnel killed in the Spanish Civil War, Spanish military personnel of the Spanish Civil War, Francisco Franco, Luis Carrero-Blanco, 1st Duke of Carrero-Blanco, Vicente Rojo Lluch, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Georgi Zakharov, Ruben Ruiz Ibarruri, Charles Donnelly, Carmelo Delgado Delgado, Alfredo Kindelan, Emilio Mola, Robert Hale Merriman, Manuel Goded Llopis, Ramon Franco, Jose Sanjurjo, Federico Borrell Garcia, Jose Enrique Varela, Ion Mo a, Juan Yague, Luis Orgaz Yoldi, Andres Garcia La Calle, George Nathan, Oliver Law, Robert Hilliard, Christopher Caudwell, Segismundo Casado, Joaquin Garcia Morato, Rafael Garcia Valino, Vasile Marin, John Cornford, Jose Miaja, Ralph Winston Fox, Lewis Clive, Hans Beimler, Augusto Perez Garmendia, Julian Bell, Fidel Davila Arrondo, Antonio Aranda, Alfonso Beorlegui Canet, David Guest, Miguel Cabanellas, George Brown, Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Antonio Ortega, Alex McDade, Enrique Fernandez Heredia. Excerpt: Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teodulo Franco y Bahamonde (4 December 1892 - 20 November 1975), known simply as Francisco Franco (Spanish pronunciation: ), was a Spanish dictator, military general and head of state of Spain from October 1936 (as a unified nation from 1939 onwards), and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November 1975. As head of state, Franco used the title Caudillo de Espana, por la gracia de Dios, meaning Leader of Spain, by the grace of God, but also was called formally as His Excellency, The Head Of State. From a military family, originally intent on entering the Spanish Navy, Franco instead became a soldier. He participated in the Rif War in Morocco, becoming the youngest general in Europe by 1926. After returning to the Spanish mainland, he saw service suppressing an anarchist-led strike in 1...