{{Expand Spanish|Batalla del Segre|topic=hist|date=July 2011}} {{distinguish|text=the Battle of Segré}} {{Infobox military conflict |conflict=Battle of the Segre |image=Niu ametralladores 1508.jpg |caption=Bunker at Bellpuig, Urgell |partof=the Spanish Civil War |date=4 April 1938 – 3 January 1939 |place=Near the Segre and Noguera Pallaresa River banks, Catalonia |result=Nationalist victory |combatant1={{flagicon image|Flag of Spain 1931 1939.svg}} Spanish Republic |combatant2={{flagicon|Spain|1938}} Nationalist Spain |commander1=Hernández Saravia<br />Juan Perea<br /> Francisco Galán<br />Gregorio Jover<br />Enrique Líster |commander2=Fidel Dávila Arrondo<br />José Solchaga<br />José Moscardó<br />Agustín Muñoz Grandes |strength1=Levantine Army {{circa}} 18,000 troops |strength2=Northern Army {{circa}} 1,800 troops |casualties1=High |casualties2=High}} {{Campaignbox Spanish Civil War}}
The '''Battle of the Segre''' is the collective name of a series of battles that took place along the Segre River between 4 April 1938 and 3 January 1939 during the Spanish Civil War, after the Nationalist Faction had broken the lines of the Spanish Republican Army in the Aragon Offensive.<ref name="Ealham2015">{{cite book|author-link=Chris Ealham|author=Chris Ealham|title=Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ip5bCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT101|date=14 December 2015|publisher=AK Press|isbn=978-1-84935-239-0|page=101}}</ref>
Although seldom mentioned in historical works, it was one of the most protracted battles of the Civil War.
==History== After having been overwhelmed in Aragon, the Segre River became for the Spanish Republic a crucial line not only for halting the devastating eastward advance of the rebel armies, but also to ensure that the vital hydroelectric dams of the Pre-Pyrenees did not fall in Francoist hands.<ref name="Ep">[http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cataluna/Regreso/batalla/Segre/elpepuespcat/20060709elpcat_16/Tes El País - Regreso a la batalla del Segre]</ref>
Beginning in April there were constant battles in the Segre Front along a long defensive line of republican positions and fortifications. During most of 1938 there would be numerous attacks, counterattacks and skirmishes from both sides along the Segre River.<ref>Ramón Salas Larrazabal (2006); pág. 1972</ref> A great number of manpower and material was sent to the Eastern Army of the newly created Eastern Region Army Group in that front. The Spanish republic was able to hold unto that line until the beginning of January 1939 when it became impossible to keep holding the resistance in the Segre against the overwhelming pressure of the rebels.<ref name="Ep"/>
Photographer Robert Capa took pictures of the Spanish Republican Navy Marines of the 151 Brigada Mixta who fought in this battle.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://mediastore.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/TR3/f/8/1/6/PAR115600.jpg |title=Robert Capa picture of the 151 Brigada Mixta at the Battle of the Segre |access-date=29 July 2012 |archive-date=9 December 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121209002718/http://mediastore.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/TR3/f/8/1/6/PAR115600.jpg |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==See also== *Balaguer Offensive *List of Spanish Nationalist military equipment of the Spanish Civil War *List of Spanish Republican military equipment of the Spanish Civil War
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