history · 05 October 1934 · 90 years ago
In Spain, about 200 mine workers from Mieres, a small and dismal village twenty miles south of Oviedo, armed with revolvers and dynamite, formed the first company of this resistance movement. Three companies of soldiers and policemen were sent against them but, after several hours of fighting, the better armed government troops were beaten. The news of this stirred up a widespread anti-government rebellion throughout the Asturias region in northern Spain.
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