Afterward, Whitehall buzzed with rumors that His Majesty’s Government were about to permit Generalissimo Francisco Franco to open throughout the United Kingdom consulates flying the crimson ...

At 33, Franco was the youngest general in all of Europe. During the Civil War he built his image as a military leader; before long, he was named “Generalissimo”—a general among generals.

“Madrid will fall in from three to five days,” predicted its besieger, Generalissimo Franco of Spain’s White Army fortnight ago. Last week, still outwardly confident and smiling, the ...

has launched a legal battle to expropriate a mansion used by 20th Century dictator Francisco Franco as a summer residence, arguing that the former Generalissimo's heirs have no right to enjoy the ...

She ruled that the original gift of the mansion in 1938 had been handed to the "Generalissimo of the armies and head of state" but not in name to Francisco Franco Bahamonde, as he was known.

Spain's dictator Francisco Franco. He said: "We will go back to a similar place to where we were after 1969," referring to ...