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Battle of Monte Pelado
	Part of the Spanish Civil War
Date	28 August 1936
Location	Monte Pelado, near Huesca, Aragon, Spain
Result	Republican victory
Belligerents
Spanish Republic	Nationalists
Commanders and leaders
Mario Angeloni †	Carlos Sanez
Strength
?	500 regulars

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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.^[1]

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 column seized the Nationalist position while suffering heavy losses.

Amongst those Italian volunteers killed were republican Mario Angeloni, commander of the Column, the anarchist Michele Centrone, the "giellista" Giuseppe Zuddas, the anarchist Fosco Falaschi, the Communist Attilio Papparotto and the anarchist Vincenzo Perrone.

Among those Italians who survived were socialist Carlo Rosselli, anarchists Camillo Berneri, Maria Zazzi, and Leonida Mastrodicasa.

References

^ Alexander, Robert (1999). The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress). London: Janus. pp. 1135–1136. ISBN 1-85756-400-6. OCLC 43717219.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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).

[1] Alexander, Robert (1999). The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress). London: Janus. pp. 1135–1136. ISBN 1-85756-400-6. OCLC 43717219.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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-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 [[Italy|Italian]] [[Spanish Second Republic|Republican]] volunteers of the [[Matteotti Battalion]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Alexander|first=Robert|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43717219|title=The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War|date=1999|publisher=Janus|others=Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)|year=1999|isbn=1-85756-400-6|location=London|pages=1135-1136|oclc=43717219}}</ref>
+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 [[Italy|Italian]] [[Spanish Second Republic|Republican]] volunteers of the [[Matteotti Battalion]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Alexander|first=Robert|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43717219|title=The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War|date=1999|publisher=Janus|others=Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)|year=1999|isbn=1-85756-400-6|location=London|pages=1135–1136|oclc=43717219}}</ref>
 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]]'' column seized the Nationalist position while suffering heavy losses.