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  2. May 8, 2024 · Francisco Franco, general and leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and head of state until his death in 1975. Learn more about Franco in this article.

    • Stanley G. Payne
    • Franco: The Early Years. Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was born on December 4, 1892, in El Ferrol, a small coastal town on Spain’s northwestern tip. Until age 12, Franco attended a private school run by a Catholic priest.
    • Franco and the Second Republic. A military dictatorship embraced by King Alfonso XIII governed Spain from 1923 to 1930, but municipal elections held in April 1931 deposed the king and ushered in the so-called Second Republic.
    • Franco and the Spanish Civil War. Banished to a remote post in the Canary Islands, Franco initially hesitated in his support of the military conspiracy.
    • Life Under Franco. Many Republican figures fled the country in the wake of the civil war, and military tribunals were set up to try those who remained. These tribunals sent thousands more Spaniards to their death, and Franco himself admitted in the mid-1940s that he had 26,000 political prisoners under lock and key.
  3. Apr 2, 2014 · Franco was born on December 4, 1892, in Ferrol, Spain, a northwestern port city with a long history of shipbuilding. The men in his family had served in the navy for generations, and the young ...

  4. Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (December 4, 1892 – November 20, 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco y Bahamonde and commonly known as Generalísimo Francisco Franco, was the Dictator of Spain in parts of the country from 1936, and in its entirety from 1939 until his death in 1975. He presided over the government of ...

  5. Feb 27, 2018 · Franco was born into a naval family on Dec. 4 1892. He wanted to be a sailor, but a reduction in admissions to the Spanish Naval Academy forced him to turn to the army, and he entered the Infantry Academy in 1907 aged 14. Upon completing this in 1910, he volunteered to go abroad and fight in Spanish Morocco and did so in 1912, soon winning a ...

  6. Franco Bahamonde, Francisco (4 Dec. 1892) (1892–1975)Spanish general, statesman, and dictator (1939–75).Born in Galicia, the son of a naval paymaster, Franco was educated at the Toledo Infantry Academy before entering the army in 1910. Serving mainly in Morocco (1910–27), he achieved the rank of general and was appointed director of the ...

  7. Jul 20, 2016 · 1. Franco entered the naval academy and intended to be a naval officer but because of government cutbacks he was forced to enter a military academy and he later graduated as an officer. 2. His father and grandfather had been naval officers. Joining the army was not as socially acceptable to someone of his class. 3.

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