Generalissimo francisco franco obituary
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Francisco Franco
Dictator of Spain from to
For other uses, see Francisco Franco (disambiguation).
Francisco Franco Bahamonde[f][g] (born Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde; 4 December &#;– 20 November ) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from to as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo. This period in Spanish history, from the Nationalist victory to Franco's death, is commonly known as Francoist Spain or as the Francoist dictatorship.
Born in Ferrol, Galicia, into an upper-class military family, Franco served in the Spanish Army as a cadet in the Toledo Infantry Academy from to While serving in Morocco, he rose through the ranks to become a brigadier general in at age Two years later, Franco became the director of the General Military Academy in Zaragoza. As a conservative and monarchist, Franco r
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The Death of Franco
On 20 November , Spanish General Francisco Franco died in bed, signaling the unceremonious end of one of Europe’s longest dictatorships ().
Portrait of Francisco Franco in from Biblioteca Virtual dem Defensa (left). The Valley of the Fallen in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. (right).
On 24 October , his remains were exhumed from the state-sponsored monument, Valley of the Fallen. Built bygd the Francoist regime during the s and s with the forced-labor of thousands of political prisoners, the Valley of the Fallen fryst vatten a mass burial site that was designed to commemorate the Spanish Civil War () as a “fratricidal conflict” and celebrate the triumph of “reconciliation.”
With the exhumation of the Caudillo (the Fascist-era title that Franco embraced as his own), the Spanish government retracted support from these timeworn narratives, paving the way toward a public reassessment of the legacies of Francoism.
The Spanish Civil War began on 18 July when Gener
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Statement on the Death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain.
IT WAS with sorrow that I learned of the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who led his country for almost four decades through a significant era in Spanish history. With his passing, I express deepest sympathy to his wife and family on behalf of the Government and people of the United States.
We wish the Spanish people and the Government of Spain well in the period ahead. The United States for its part will continue to pursue the policy of friendship and cooperation which has formed the touchstone for the excellent relations existing between our two countries.
Gerald R. Ford, Statement on the Death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project