Siege of the Alcázar

Siege of the Alcázar
	Part of the Spanish Civil War
	; Alcázar of Toledo in 2006
Date	July 21 – September 27, 1936
Location	Toledo, Spain
Result	Nationalist victory Siege lifted; Nationalists capture Toledo;
Belligerents
Republicans; Confederal militias; Antifascist Worker and Peasant Militias Fifth Regiment;	Nationalists
Commanders and leaders
Maj. Gen. José Riquelme; Col. Aureliano Álvarez-Coque; Lt. Col. Ricardo Burillo; Lt. Col. Luis Barceló (WIA); Cpt. Salvador Sediles; Juan Modesto; Enrique Líster; Cándido Cabello	Brig. José Enrique Varela; Col. José Moscardó Ituarte; Lt. Col. Pedro Romero Basart; Lt. Col. Ricardo Villalba Rubio; Maj. Víctor Martínez Simancas (WIA)
Strength
~8,000	1,028
Casualties and losses
High	48–65 dead; 438 wounded; 22 missing

The siege of the Alcázar was a highly symbolic Nationalist victory in Toledo in the opening stages of the Spanish Civil War. The Alcázar of Toledo was held by a variety of military forces in favour of the Nationalist uprising. Militias of the parties in the Popular Front began their siege on July 21, 1936. The siege ended on September 27 with the arrival of the Army of Africa under Francisco Franco.

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