The Fifth Column

Madrid becomes a prime objective and Franco famously marches on Madrid. This incidentally is where you get the origin of the phrase fifth column because Franco – I believe with General Mola who said this, he's actually the chief brains behind conspiracy in Commander in the Province of Spain. But anyway, so Franco and company march on Madrid obviously sent the majority of their striking forces to attack the city. Now there's an important decision that should be talked about because I think this is probably more important than the way you originally phrased the question. He diverts off to the right, off to the southeast if you look at that, to go and relieve the garrison, nationalist garrison, which had been holding