Pingarron Hill SCW (id:#57275)

Critical Hit (Guerra Civil: The Spanish Civil War ID: GC4)   [next]   [previous]

Jarama Valley, Spain 1937-02-23 (2 others)

Overview:

General Gal ordered another attempt to storm the Nationalist strongpoint at Pingarrón. The Republican forces involved included 450 Americans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade under Robert Merriman. The inexperienced troops, advancing without artillery or air support, marched bravely into the teeth of the Nationalist lines and were cut to pieces. Poet Charles Donnelly (part of an Irish contingent known as the Connolly Column) was heard to remark, "even the olives are bleeding", before being gunned down by a burst of machine gun fire and killed. Captain Merriman was among those wounded. The Americans lost 120 dead and 175 wounded, or 66% casualties. The heavy casualties caused many of the demoralized Republicans to mutiny. . . .The Nationalists win by controlling one or more level three hexes at the game end. Initial forces are outnumbered twenty four squads to ten but on turn three another ten squads arrive, just after three T26Bs

Defender: Spanish Nationalist (2nd Tabor of Ceuta and Galician Battallion)  

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