Ka kammala wannan jumla: A watan Oktoba, 'Yan Nationalist sun kai wani babban hari a kan Madrid, sun kai wurin a farkon Nuwamba kuma suka kai hari a birnin a ranar 8 ga Nuwamba. An tilasta wa gwamnatin Jamhuriyar Republican sauyawa daga Madrid zuwa Valencia, daga yankin yaƙi, a ranar 6 ga Nuwamba. Duk da haka, an kaddamar da hare-haren 'yan kasa a kan babban birnin kasar a cikin mummunan fada tsakanin Nuwamba 8 da 23. Wani abin da ya ba da gudummawa ga nasarar kare Jamhuriyar Republican shi ne isowar Brigades na Duniya, kodayake kusan 3,000 daga cikinsu ne suka shiga yakin. Da yake ya kasa ɗaukar babban birnin, Franco ya yi ta harbi daga sama kuma, a cikin shekaru biyu masu zuwa, ya kafa
da dama hare-hare don kokarin kewaye Madrid.