Benigno Andrade Garcia, The Foucelhas, is the most legendary and popular guerrilla anti-Franco. Born: October 22, 1908 in the village of Foucelhas, parish of Cabruêra (City of Messiah), and run garrote vil died on August 7, 1952 in La Coruna.
Although Franco
the steels with no rest, his wisdom allowed him to escape the repressive forces and become a hero of the silent people. This was once the name has become synonymous Foucelhas guerrilla in almost any country.
1908, October 22: Born in Foucelhas, parish of Cabruêra (Messiah), Benigno Andrade. Works in the area, a dairy and in the coal mines of Faber (The Cradle).
1930-36, taking part in the founding of the communist cell Curtis, along with Dr. Manuel Lopez Calvelo, this woman, Isabel Ríos Lazcano, and his wife, Maria Perez Mellid.
1936: The Popular Front wins elections February 16. Andrade, affiliated to the CNT, works in a sawmill at the time that happens the military uprising in Portugal on July 20. It is part of a column that goes out to Curtis from La Coruña in support of forces loyal to the Republic, but when they reach the city is already taken by the rebels. Return the short and boots to the mountain to save the life of repression that has exercised the falanxistas and other fascists. Among others, the warrant shooting Calvelo de Compostela in prison.
1941: The Civil Police become aware of the guerrilla activity Foucelhas. Located in front of a resistance group that operated in the area of \u200b\u200bthe wiki is for monks. At the time it takes fled survives thanks to help the people, and in other cases with assaults of subsistence.
1943: The Communist Party is leading the process of supplying weapons to fugitives on the hill. The Foucelhas Guerrilla Group IV enters Galicia, invited by the guerrilla leader Manuel Bridge Quarry.
1944, at the end of the year: Fourth Congress of Federation of guerrilla warfare. The PC is done with the organization's control of the guerrilla struggle in Galicia. Antón Seoane (military commander) and José Gomes Gayoso (secretary general) returning from Argentina and Cuba, respectively, and take control.
1945, February: Foucelhas Kills Civilian Police Corporal Curtis. Days later smitest thou involuntarily with the gun that he wore on his horse. The Civil Guard has and question many people, among them his wife, Maria Perez, who will offer money in exchange for delatalo. His colleagues at the sanatorium trasládano St. Nicholas of La Coruna, where they operate under the false name of Juan Fernandez.
1945-1946: spends several months recovering in a house in the neighborhood of Monel. Attends several times Riazor stadium disguised as a priest, to see play the sports, which was a big fan, especially the goalkeeper Juan Acuña.
1947 January: The Foucelhas reincorpórase to armed struggle. Disagreements with Gomes and Gayoso Seoane, who did not like his character make-anarchic change your area performance.
1947, April: Kill the guerrilla Manuel Ponte, one of the most active of the country. As a result, the Foucelhas progress aimed at the southernmost county (Lalín Caldas, Arousa) in front of the Detachment Manolito Bello V Group.
1948: The PCE (Santiago Carrillo and Dolores Ibárruri, The Pasionaria) and Stalin negotiated the surrender of the guerrillas. They get the bad times for the Resistance in Portugal, even when it seemed stronger.
1948, November 6: Die executed in Corunna Seoane Gomes and Gayoso.
1948-1951: A guerrilla activity of Foucelhas decreases as they fall colleagues struggle. However, to the Francoist authorities that the capture converted into something obsessive, promising to sneak money, property and even tickets for travel to America.
1952, March 9: The Civil Guard has the Foucelhas in Costa Regueiro (Oza dos Ríos), where it remained hidden in a cave shelters, when the river would asear Mendo, was preparing to go to party. One of the shots impáctalle a leg.
1952, June 26: Xúlgano war council in the Military Health Grouping of Corunna.
1952, August 7: Execútano the garrote vil in the prison of La Coruna. His remains rest in the cemetery City of San Amaro, common in pits.
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