threatened by Queipo de Llano. Many of the soldiers under his command in Seville took part in the rebel uprising. He was discharged from the army in December 1936; and in February 1939, a Nationalist court martial sentenced him to six years in prison. He finished serving his sentence in Seville, in a villa near Cruz del Campo, which was used as a military prison during the war and afterwards. Shortly after his release, he died in 1946 in a Madrid pension. References Military personnel of the Spanish Civil War 1878 births 1946 deaths Spanish generals