 The city's garrison, led by Queipo de Llano, occupied the city and carried out a bloody repression.In August 1936, the Nationalists started their advance towards Madrid from Seville.On 17–18 July a part of the Spanish army, led by a group of officers (among them the generals Sanjurjo, Franco, Mola, Goded and Queipo de Llano), tried to overthrow the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic.