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Segismundo Casado

1893 - 1968

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Segismundo Casado López (10 October 1893 – 18 December 1968) was a Spanish Army officer; he served during the late Restoration, the Primo de Rivera dictatorship and the Second Spanish Republic. Following outbreak of the Spanish Civil War he sided with the Republicans, gradually rising to commander of the Army of the Centre. He is best known as leader of the coup against the government of Juan Negrín; its objectives were preventing a Communist takeover and terminating fratricidal bloodshed during the war, considered already lost. The rebels seized control of the Republican zone; in their quasi-government Casado served as the minister of defense. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Segismundo Casado is the 1,498th most popular military personnel (down from 1,475th in 2019). (down from 2,842nd in 2019)

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Among military personnels, Segismundo Casado ranks 1,498 out of 2,058. Before him are Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Kuroki Tamemoto, Oleg Salyukov, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Arabo, and Coenus. After him are Curt Haase, Endel Puusepp, Moritz von Auffenberg, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Alexander Kutepov, and Shōji Nishimura.

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Among people born in 1893, Segismundo Casado ranks 174. Before him are Karimeh Abbud, Stanisław Szukalski, Fay Bainter, Jamil Mardam Bey, Ralph Linton, and Bugs Moran. After him are Anthony Berkeley Cox, Eugen Schüfftan, Enrique Peñaranda, Eduard Čech, Woldemar Hägglund, and Amílcar Barbuy. Among people deceased in 1968, Segismundo Casado ranks 128. Before him are Vahram Papazian, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Ivan Pyryev, Khuang Aphaiwong, J. L. B. Smith, and Rose Wilder Lane. After him are Ibrahim Moustafa, Mercedes de Acosta, Panagiotis Pavlidis, Alexander Gelfond, Joseph Keilberth, and Dorothy Garrod.

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