Battle of Málaga

January 17 - February 7, 1937

:A combined Spanish and Italian offensive that reduced the Republican bulge into Nationalist lines along the Andalucian coast by taking the city of Málaga. Repulican forces consisted of untrained militia as army reforms had not yet affected this backwater of the war and these proved incapable and unwilling to stand up to the tanks and aggressive troops of the Nationalists and their Italian allies. Nationalist forces were easilly able to capture the city, whereupon executions of suspected Republican sympathizers began that would run into the thousands. Nationalist and Italian casualties were light, while the Republic lost thousands, only a small portion of which were in battle. A clear and humilitating defeat for the Republic which had many political repercussions in their government [Santa Cruz].

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