Topic summary
Catalonia Offensive
Beevor: 220,000
Jackson: 90,000
Thomas: 360 artillery pieces
Beevor: 250 artillery pieces
Thomas: 200 tanks and armoured cars
Beevor: 40 tanks and armoured cars
Thomas: 80 aircraft
Beevor: 106 aircraft
Beevor: 340,000
Thomas: 300,000
Beevor: 1,400 artillery pieces
Thomas: 565 artillery pieces
300 tanks
500 aircraft
10,000 wounded
60,000 captured
220,000 disarmed in France
The Catalonia Offensive (Catalan: Ofensiva de Catalunya, Spanish: Ofensiva de Cataluña) was part of the Spanish Civil War. The Nationalist Army started the offensive on 23 December 1938 and rapidly conquered Republican-held Catalonia with Barcelona (the Republic's capital city from October 1937). Barcelona was captured on 26 January 1939. The Republican and Catalan governments headed for the French border. Thousands of people fleeing the Nationalists also crossed the frontier in the following month, to be placed in internment camps. Franco closed the border with France by 10 February 1939.