Name that MWiF counter - 31

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A MWiF leader had the surname of 'Bahamonde'. What name is written on his counter in MWIF?

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Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde

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Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde

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Aged 46 in 1939. Generalissimo Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde, Chief of State and Highest General of the Spanish Armed Forces and by the Grace of God, the Leader of Spain and of the Crusade, was educated at Toledo Military Academy then served in Spanish Morroco until 1927. After that he was promoted to General and made Principal of the Sargossa Military Academy. Franco took no action during the 1931 Fall of the Monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic. His first involvement in politics came during the civil unrest that followed the Centre-Right victory in the 1933 elections. In October 1934 Franco had been ordered to suppress a strike by coal miners that had grown into a leftist revolt against the Republic. Franco's ruthless and efficient completion of his orders impressed the government and in 1935 he was made Chief of Staff. The victory of the left-leaning Popular Front in the February 1936 elections led to widespread rioting and the new Government answered Franco's suggestion to declare a State of Emergency by appointing him to a backwater post as Governor of the Canary Islands. In July of that year Franco threw in his lot with the Nationalist rebels and flew to Africa where he persuaded the Spanish Army in Africa to join the revolution. The Republican-controlled navy blockaded the African coast but Franco overcame that problem by flying his troops from Africa into the Nationalist-held city of Seville. With military support from Germany (the Condor Legion) and Italy (the Corpo Truppe Volontarie) Franco pushed inland towards Badajoz and Madrid. The death of the Nationalist Leader, General Jose Sanjurjo in an air crash in July 1936 left a power vaccuum that Franco was only too happy to fill and by October Franco had been appointed Generalissimo of Spain and the Head of State. Recognition of his government by Germany and Italy came the following month but France and Britain did not follow suit until February 1939 when all possibility of a Republican victory in the civil war had disappeared. When the initial assault on Republican-held Madrid failed in November 1936 Franco adopted a slower and more methodic campaign of conquest that ended in early 1939 after a fratricidal war broke out among his Republican opponents. Franco's government was a classic right-wing dictatorship with no elections or Freedom of the Press. When Germany conquered France in 1940 Hitler made strenuous efforts to get Franco to join the war on the side of the Axis. Spain was promised the territories of Gibraltar (subject to a German lease as a naval base) and French North Africa as well as subsidised oil and other raw materials from Germany, whereupon Franco agreed to enter the war on the day that Germany landed in England. Spain initially gave naval assistance to the Germans but from 1943 Franco adopted a more neutral approach to the war. In 1947 Franco proclaimed Spain as a Monarchy with a vacant throne and himself as Regent. When Franco died in 1975 Juan Carlos de Borbon became Prince of Spain and Head of State.