The Battle of Monte Pelado ("Bald Mountain") was an engagement of the
Spanish Civil War
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fought on 28 August 1936. It was notable as the first major engagement of the
Italian Republican volunteers of the
Matteotti Battalion
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.
Monte Pelado, in
Aragon
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, between
Huesca and Almudévar, was the site of a
Francoist gun emplacement and a concentration of around five hundred Nationalist troops. In bitter fighting from five until nine in the morning, Italians and the
Spanish anarchists of the ''
Francisco Ascaso'' column seized the Nationalist position while suffering heavy losses.
Amongst those Italian volunteers killed were republican
Mario Angeloni
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, commander of the Column, the
anarchist
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Michele Centrone, the
"giellista" Giuseppe Zuddas, the anarchist
Fosco Falaschi, the
Communist
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Attilio Papparotto and the anarchist
Vincenzo Perrone.
Among those Italians who survived were
socialist
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Carlo Rosselli
Carlo Alberto Rosselli (Rome, 16 November 1899Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, 9 June 1937) was an Italian political leader, journalist, historian, philosopher and anti-fascist activist, first in Italy and then abroad. He developed a theory of reformist, ...
, anarchists
Camillo Berneri
Camillo Berneri (also known as Camillo da Lodi; May 28, 1897 – May 5, 1937) was an Italian professor of philosophy, anarchist militant, propagandist and theorist. He was married to Giovanna Berneri, and was father of Marie-Louise Berneri and ...
,
Maria Zazzi, and
Leonida Mastrodicasa.
See also
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References
''Gli antifascisti grossetani nella guerra civile spagnola'' in ''La Risveglia'', quadrimestrale di varia umanità (n°3/4 Gennaio - Aprile 2000, Maggio - Agosto 2000).
*''La colonna antifascista italiana si batte vittoriosamente davanti a Huesca'', in
Giustizia e Libertà,( n.36, 4 set. 1936).
*Calosso, Umberto. ''La guerra di Angeloni'', in Il mondo, (1 set. 1951), p. 8
*Bifolchi, Giuseppe. ''Monte Pelato: prima battaglia dell'antifascismo italiano in difesa della rivoluzione in Spagna'', in Umanità nova, (27 August 1966).
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