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Write the continuation of this text: After the beginning of the civil war, he managed to secure Espejo for the Republic and led a militia, the "Bautista Garcet" battalion, with which he would take part in numerous operations in the province of Córdoba. Ortiz participated in the failed...<end_of_turn>
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Córdoba offensive, which in August 1936 tried to conquer the capital of Córdoba. Later, during the war, he commanded the 52nd and 226th mixed brigades, fighting on several fronts. In July 1938, at the head of the 226th BM, he was one of the first Republican commanders to cross the Ebro River and begin the Republican offensive. Later he commanded the 42nd Division, replacing the deceased Manuel Álvarez Álvarez, coinciding with the last days of the Battle of the Ebro. With the collapse of the Republican front in Catalonia, at the beginning of 1939 he had to go to France.<end_of_turn><eos>