Zaragoza, the Spanish Stalingrad Button

ZARAGOZA (Spain): As a part of the Dos de Mayo (2 May) uprising, the city had already successfully resisted a first siege from 15 June 1808 to 14 August 1808. This was one of the first times in history that a regular army was defeated by irregulars in street fighting. STALINGRAD (USSR): Marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, it is one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with an estimated 2 million total casualties. After their defeat at Stalingrad, the German High Command had to withdraw considerable military forces from other theatres of war to replace their losses. "from house to house, from floor to floor, from room to room, exposing to the explosion of the mines that swallowed them and leaving the ruins of the unfortunate city only when they had become a cemetery »