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As part of this military buildup, Franco was assigned to a post in Morocco in 1912. At that time, Spain’s army was fighting to subdue the local Rif tribespeople. This gave Franco military experience. During his first tour of duty, which lasted until 1916, Franco quickly established himself as a brave and effective combat officer. In 1913 he won his first prestigious decoration, the Military Cross, and by 1917 his bravery and notable successes on the battlefield had earned him the rank of major.
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Despite the official end of the war, guerrilla resistance to Franco (known as "the maquis") was widespread in many mountainous regions, and continued well into the 1950s. In 1944, a group of republican veterans, which ... fought in the French resistance against the Nazis, invaded the Val d'Aran in northwest Catalonia, but they were quickly defeated.
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At 3 years of age, Franco fell several stories, landing on his head and leaving him in a coma for a month with a swollen head. Everyone seemed to give up hope for Franco, including the doctor who said that all that could be done was to pack his head with ice. His own grandmother ended up in the hospital upon seeing Franco's condition. Because of Franco's disability, hardly anyone paid much attention to him. Franco became an introvert, and was reluctant to attend school. His means of making friends at school was to utilize his artistic skills to draw a schoolmate and ... become his friend. He discovered that his first love was cartooning; he created many characters that became his virtual friends.
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Franco held right-wing, monarchist views and the republican government mistrusted him and demoted him to a minor post in Corunna. Two years later he was sent to command the Spanish Army in the Balearics.
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In his recent, updated history of the Spanish Civil War, Antony Beevor "reckons Franco's ensuing 'white terror' claimed 200,000 lives. The 'red terror' had already killed 38,000."[26] Julius Ruiz concludes that "although the figures remain disputed, a minimum of 37,843 executions were carried out in the Republican zone with a maximum of 150,000 executions (including 50,000 after the war) in Nationalist Spain."[27] In Checas de Madrid, César Vidal comes to a nationwide total of 110,965 victims of Republican repression; 11,705 people being killed in Madrid alone.[28]
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