who was francisco franco
Francisco Franco , in full Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo TeÃ³dulo Franco Bahamonde , byname El Caudillo ( â The Leader â ) ( born December 4 , 1892 , El Ferrol , Spainâdied November 20 , 1975 , Madrid ) general and leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936â39 ) ; thereafter he was ...