NOUN
- Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975)
How To Use General Franco In A Sentence
- The dictatorship of General Franco lasted for nearly 40 years.
- On 1 November of that same year he was elected head of state of Nationalist Spain and generalissimo of its armies, but General Franco's rebel regime needed three long years of civil war to gain control of the whole nation.
- Protest itself has become an art form since the end of General Franco's dictatorship.
- The internal divisions which seemingly threatened, but actually assisted, the political survival of General Franco continued into 1942.