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Battle of Monte Pelado
The Battle of Monte Pelado ("Bald Mountain") was an engagement of the Spanish Civil War fought on 28 August 1936. It was notable as the first major engagement of the Italian Republican volunteers of the Matteotti Battalion. 
Monte Pelado, in Aragon, 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"
Spain.
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August 28, 1936 (Friday).
- The Battle of Monte Pelado was fought, resulting in Republican victory.
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