sacas. Following surrender Angel Molina was placed in the Cartagena prison ship and executed in mid-August 1936. Isaac Martínez was trialed twice: in 1937 by Popular Tribunal and in 1940 by Francoist military court. Fulgencio Lozano during early Francoism was a provincial Falange jefe; he ran a pharmaceutical business in Albacete and was last noted in 1969. The 1936 coup in Albacete stands out as a fairly unique development; in many respects it differs from the coup as unfolding elsewhere in most Spain. Unlike in most other provinces it was executed not by the military but by Guardia Civil, who turned the primary rebel force in the province. Unlike in most provinces where the insurgents failed they were defeated not by workers’ militias but by loyalist military units. Along Guadalajara, in July 1936 Albacete was the only provincial capital initially seized by the rebels where the government regained control; along Teruel it was one of 3 provincial capitals ever re-captured by the Republican government during the Civil War. Last but not least, the loyalist counter-offensive in the Albacete province represented the largest single territorial Republican gain during the Civil War; with some 12,000 square km seized from the rebels, it by far exceeded gains obtained later in July and August 1936 in the Cordoba province (some 5,000 km2), in July 1936 in the Guadalajara province (some 1,000 km2), in January 1939 in Extremadura (some 800 km2) and in August 1936 in the Baleares (some 700 km2), let alone other smaller territorial gains, obtained during the battle of Belchite, battle of Ebro, battle of Teruel, battle of Guadalajara, battle of Brunete and battle of La Granja. Footnotes Further reading Francisco Alía Miranda, Conspiración y alzamiento: principales modelos en Castilla-La Mancha, [in:] Francisco Alía Miranda, Angel Ramón del Valle Calzado, Olga M. Morales Encinas, La guerra civil en Castilla-La Mancha, 70 años después: actas del Congreso Internacional, Cuenca 2008, , pp. 323–370 Francisco Fuster, Albacete en los libros de la Guerra Civil española, [in:] Al-Basit: Revista de estudios albacetenses 1 (1975), pp. 12–25 Juan Luis Hernández Piqueras, La Guerra Civil en Almansa, Almansa 2009 Elena López Martínez, “El Babel de La Mancha”. Una ruta histórica por el Albacete en guerra (1936-1939), [in:] Al-Basit: Revista de estudios albacetenses 61 (2016), pp. 283–301 Rosa María Sepúlveda Losa, La conspiración y la sublevación militar de julio de 1936 en Albacete, [in:] Francisco Alía Miranda, Angel