Talk:Francisco Ciutat de Miguel

Spanish names
FayssalF and LordAmeth Thank you for all your efforts.

Surnames commonly but not always (notice recent change in Argentina) Spanish names take the form (first names)- father's last name-mother's last name: "La actual ley establece que los hijos matrimoniales llevarán el primer apellido del padre. A pedido de los progenitores, podrá inscribirse el apellido compuesto del padre o agregar el de la madre.

En la mayoría de países latinoamericanos el uso de los apellidos paterno y materno es lo habitual, no así en la Argentina, salvo en las familias tradicionales de encumbrada posición social." e.g.

Thus I made a slight correction, even though the subject's name seems to Catalan

El Jigue208.65.188.149 19:43, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Francisco Ciutat de Miguel/Bay of Pigs Invasion
The following passage is removed from Bay of Pigs Invasion :-

"Ciutat de Miguel (Masonic name: Algazel[citation needed]; Russian name: Pavel Pavlovich Stepanov; Cuban alias: Ángel Martínez Riosola, commonly referred to as Angelito) is said to have arrived the same day as the La Coubre explosion; he was wounded in the foot during the War Against the Bandits. Date of wound is not given in references cited.[15]"

In Bay of Pigs Invasion, it is replaced with "Francisco Ciutat de Miguel (Cuban alias: Ángel Martínez Riosola, commonly referred to as Angelito)". In the biography article Francisco Ciutat de Miguel, all the aliases and the reference are already included.

I am copying this section to the talk pages of Bay of Pigs Invasion, and War Against The Bandits. In addition, on the talk page of Francisco Ciutat de Miguel, I am copying below, an English machine translation of his extracted entry in Memoria Republicana retrieved from http://www.sbhac.net/Republica/Personajes/Militares/Militares1.htm on 2009-01-16. It contains nothing dated later than 1939.PeterWD (talk) 00:51, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

(start quote, Google translated) Francisco Ciutat de Miguel. Lt. Infantry continued courses of Staff in Madrid 1936. In September he was appointed Head of Operations of the Army EM North, but he had serious disagreements with Aguirre, President Basque, probably due to Ciutat communist era and felt little enthusiasm for the military independence of the Basque region. After Defeating North was appointed Head of Operations of the Army Levante, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the war marched to the USSR where he studied and later taught at the academy Vorochilov. ... Ciutat described himself on the occasion of the publication of his book: "Stories and thoughts of the war in Spain": When the 18 July 1936 the military uprising that led the civil war and bloody hard that we had known turbulent history, I counted twenty-six years of age, was deputy Infantry and had just approved the first year of the College of War in Madrid. Orphan military because my father, Francisco City Martin died in Zamora (December 1921) is a lieutenant colonel Civil Guard. I entered the Infantry Academy in Toledo 1925. Three years later, with the use of second lieutenant, I was destined to Garellano Infantry Regiment, number 43 of garrison in Bilbao where I began my life by organizing and sending a military section mortars. I attended several military exercises in Zamora, in the mountains Leon in Alava and Guipuzcoa, conducted several workshops in the Central School Shooting (1929), the Central School of Gymnastics (1930-1931) and entered by competition at the Superior School of War (1935). Venerating the history of my motherland, I am proud of my people and linked to enthusiasm to the best democratic traditions, his fierce desire independence. So when you reach the crucial hours, my choice was clear. In war (1936-39) I was commissioned by the government of the Republic charges and duties far beyond my modest employment lieutenant, to my knowledge and military experience, but encouraged for the confidence placed in me, I was able to meet soon with my duty without sparing efforts. In late August 1936, the then chief government of the Republic, Dr. Giral, instructed me ... to create, organize and lead the Northern Army ... "as chief of staff of it. Some three months later, this is essentially accomplished mission that was intended to send an army veteran and excellent military, General Francisco Llano Encomienda, under whose orders stayed as Chief of Staff (14-11-1936). Continued for ten months dramatic and continuing fighting in harsh conditions of isolation and lower limbs, especially in air and sea against main forces of the opponent, after the defeat suffered in Guadalajara and Madrid, turned up their efforts to conquer Euzkadi, Asturias and Santander, which formed the north Republican. Lost after stubborn fight against this (October 1937), General Vicente Rojo Lluch, chief of Central, I joined the staff of Army Maneuver as chief and deputy chief of operations Staff. As such participated in the development of various plans strategic, including the operation of Teruel (December 1937 to February 1938), the so-called "Plan D", which was never performed in the completion of the landmark antitrust Maestrazgo and Aragon (March-May 1938), the successful defense of Valencia (June-July of 1938) and the local operations that followed in the front Levante until the end of the contest. In the course of the war I received several promotions and rewards. In April 1939 was a lieutenant colonel, and he was Chief of Army Levante, having spent his worthy chief, Gen. Leopoldo Menéndez to send a group of armies and the fall of Colonel Frederick Church brilliant military high professional competence, the Army Levante. (end quote)