Battle of Seseña

Battle of Seseña
	Part of the Spanish Civil War
	; T-26 mod. 1933 as used by the Spanish Republican Army, near Salamanca, Spain.
Date	October 29, 1936
Location	Seseña, Toledo, Spain
Result	Nationalist victory
Belligerents
Spanish Republic; Soviet Union	Nationalist Spain
Commanders and leaders
Enrique Líster; Ildefonso Puigdendolas ; Pols Armāns	Felix Monasterio
Strength
1st Mixed Brigade: (around 3,800 men); 15 T-26 tanks	one cavalry column: ?; regulares:?; At least 11 Italian L3/33 tankettes
Casualties and losses
8 dead; 3 tanks destroyed	Soviet claim: 600 dead; 11 tankettes destroyed

The Battle of Seseña was Republican-Soviet assault on the Nationalist stronghold of Seseña, near Toledo, 30 km south of Madrid in October 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. After the fall of Talavera de la Reina and Toledo in September 1936, the Nationalist troops pushed towards Madrid and in October they were 30 km from the city. The Republican government which had received new Soviet weapons decided to launch a counteroffensive in order to stop the Nationalist offensive at Seseña. The attack failed and the Nationalists resumed their advance towards Madrid. The battle is notable for being the first time that massive tank warfare was seen in the Spanish War and for the use by Nationalist troops of Molotov cocktails against Soviet T-26 tanks.

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