Antonio Ortega (lieutenant)

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Antonio Ortega a lieutenant of Carabineros stationed in Irun, was appointed on August 6, 1936 civil governor of Guipuzcoa. He took command of the Republican forces during the later part of the Campaign of Guipúzcoa after the capture of Augusto Pérez Garmendia at Oiartzun.

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• Romero, Eladi, Itinerarios de la Guerra Civil española : guía del viajero curioso, Barcelona : Laertes, 2001 , 600 p.
• Barruso, Pedro, Verano y revolución. La guerra civil en Gipuzkoa' (julio-septiembre de 1936), Edita: Haramburu Editor. San Sebastián, 1996.
  • Pedro Barruso, GIPUZKOA 1936: VERANO Y REVOLUCIÓN, LA GUERRA CIVIL EN GIPUZKOA (Spanish)
• Hugh Thomas (2001). The Spanish Civil War. Modern Library. ISBN 0375755152.