Joaquín Zuluea Isasi was a Spanish soldier who participated in the Spanish Civil War. Biography
An outstanding cavalry officer in the Air Force, during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he had conspired against the regime and, having been expelled from the army in 1935, he was readmitted the following year after the outbreak of the Civil War. to re-enter the army held the rank of lieutenant.
During the first months of the war he was in charge of several columns and in December 1936 he was put in charge of the new 38th Mixed Brigade, which covered the Pozuelo sector. Franco's military attack during the Third Battle of the Carretera de La Coruña. In March, he took charge of the 3rd Mixed Brigade and later assumed command of the 7th Division, a unit he commanded during the rest of the contest. By 1939 he had already risen to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and on March 12, 1939, Colonel Segismundo Casado put him in charge of the II Army Corps, a few days before the end of the war. Captured by the Francoists, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison but managed to escape from prison in 1942 thanks to the support of right-wing friends.
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