Corbera d'Ebre (Catalan pronunciation: [koɾˈβeɾa ˈðeβɾe]) is a municipality in the comarca of la Terra Alta in Catalonia, Spain.
The town has one of the five information centres run by COMEBE, a public consortium, including the Generalitat de Catalunya, that was founded in 2001 to recover the historical memory of the areas in which the 115-day-long Battle of the Ebro, the longest, bloodiest and most decisive battle of the Spanish Civil War, took place.
[4] At the end of March 1938, following the Aragon Offensive, the Lincoln-Washington Battalion, part of the 35th Division retreating from Belchite, where they had lost 400 from a total of 500 men, had camped in the area of Corbera.
However, they were unaware that the town had been in Francoist hands since noon on April 2, and several American brigadiers of the Lincoln and Washington Battalions of the International Brigades passing through were captured and executed, including the commanding officer of the Battalion, Major Merriman, and his second in command, David Doran.
[6] After heavy fighting in the area, and heavy losses, at the beginning of September, the Lincoln Battalion was back in the vicinity of Corbera, only to be withdrawn from the region towards the end of the month, following the September 21 announcement by the prime minister of Spain, Juan Negrín, before the League of Nations at Geneva, of his decision to unilaterally withdraw all international troops from the Republican Army.