 Rada's men took La Marañosa hill, high, which overlooked both banks of the Jarama.The two Republican battalions atop "La Marañosa" vainly stuck to their cliff-top defences and fought there to the last man.By February 8, the west bank of the Jarama was in Nationalist hands and on February 9, Rada's troops had secured the high ground opposite Vaciamadrid.