Learn how Francisco Franco used the tactics of colonial war ... before long, he was named “Generalissimo”—a general among generals. During the Civil War and later, as the ruler of Spain ...

Now, 20 years after he proclaimed himself ruler of Spain, “responsible only to God and history,” Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 66, was ready to offer a partial accounting for his stewardship.

Generalissimo Francisco Franco was good & mad, according to reports seeping from his Madrid palace. Why, he angrily demanded of his advisers, had they kept him ignorant of the people’s ...

LONDON-Spanish Insurgent headquarters at Salamanca tonight broadcast an official announcement that Generalissimo Francisco Franco's advance columns had captured Blanes, the first town in Gerona ...