page_title: 242nd Mixed Brigade
hierarchical_section_title: 242nd Mixed Brigade
caption_attribution_description: English: Mouth of the river Tordera (Catalonia, Spain) Català: Desembocadura del riu Tordera (Malgrat de Mar, El Maresme) (Blanes, La Selva)
context_page_description: The 242nd Mixed Brigade, was a short-lived mixed brigade of the Spanish Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War.
  Hastily formed in the winter in Catalonia shortly before the end of the war and marred by desertions, it was one of the last mixed brigades to be established.
context_section_description: The 242nd Mixed Brigade (Spanish: 242.ª Brigada Mixta), was a short-lived mixed brigade of the Spanish Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. 
  Hastily formed in the winter in Catalonia shortly before the end of the war and marred by desertions, it was one of the last mixed brigades to be established.
caption: View of the last stretch of the Tordera River where the 242nd MB tried to establish a line of defence but quickly fell apart.
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