Huesca Offensive

Huesca Offensive
	Part of the Spanish Civil War
	; Republican forces on the outskirts of Huesca, September 1936
Date	12 June–19 June 1937
Location	Near Huesca, Huesca province, Spain
Result	Nationalist victory
Belligerents
Spanish Republic; International Brigades	Nationalist Spain
Commanders and leaders
Sebastián Pozas; Máté Zalka †
Units involved
Army of the East Rakosi Battalion;
Strength
Casualties and losses
9,000 casualties

The Huesca Offensive was an operation carried out during the Spanish Civil War by the Republican Army in June 1937 in order to take the Aragonese city of Huesca, which since the start of the war in July 1936 had been under the control of the Nationalist forces.

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