For the last eighteen months of the war the Republican armies must have been fighting almost without cigarettes, and with precious little food.

The Republican army then continued to advance north to the river Desaguadero.

Fighting in the middle of bitter winter temperatures, the exhausted Republican army could offer only feeble resistance.

Furthermore, the Republican Army suffered heavy lost of armament and tanks.

With such enormous armies at its doorstep, the decimated Republican Army cannot hope to hold.

The Republican Army prepared the Ebro's crossing during a whole week.

The Republican Army could not pursue the enemy.

In summer 1938, the Republican Army had two armoured divisions, formed with Soviet help.

But then, the Republican Army launched an attack in order to recover Córdoba.

The Republican army, however, retained much the same structure as before, a citizen-levy alongside conscripts provided by the socii.