Rosal Column Explained

Unit Name:	Rosal Column
Native Name:	Columna Rosal
Type:	Militia
Role:	Home defense
Size:	2,300
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Notable Commanders:	Francisco del Rosal Rico, Cipriano Mera, Eusebio Sanz

The Rosal Column was a republican militia column created during the Spanish Civil War. It was the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo's largest unit, with 835 men, in 1936.^[1]

Bibliography

• Octavio Ruiz Manjón-Cabeza, The Second Republic and the war.
• Víctor de la Vega Almagro, Artistic treasure and civil war: the case of Cuenca.
• Cipriano Mera, War, exile and prison of an anarcho-syndicalist. Iberian Roll, 1976.
• Eduardo de Guzmán, Red and Black Madrid. Oberon, 2004.

Notes and References

1. Book: The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 . 978-1-107-32857-0 . Alpert . Michael . 28 February 2013 . Cambridge University Press .