On this day, 25 August 1944, a group of 32 Spanish and eight French resistance fighters tackled an entire German column, consisting of 1,300 men in 60 lorries with six tanks and two self-propelled guns, in La Madeleine, France. The Maquis blew up the road and rail bridges and positioned themselves on surrounding hills with machine guns. The battle raged from 3:00pm till noon the following day. Three Maquis were wounded, while 8 Germans were killed, nearly 200 wounded and the rest surrendered. After his humiliating defeat, the Nazi commander killed himself before he could be captured.
This is a short history of Spanish anti-Franco exiles in the French resistance: https://libcom.org/history/1939-1945-spanish-resistance-in-france https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2065714750280331/?type=3