During the Spanish Civil War, Iglesias fought for the Nationalists led by General Franco.

His election was facilitated by an informal alliance between the Conservatives and the Nationalists led by Henri Bourassa because of Sevigny's sympathy with Bourassa's views.

Nationalists calling for a much stronger federal government with powers of taxation led the constitutional convention in 1787.

On 11 August the Nationalists led by Camilo Alonso Vega launched an attack against the Serra de Pàndols held by the Lister's 11th Division.

After the battle of Teruel, the Nationalists led by the general Fidel Dávila, launched an offensive in the Aragon front on March 1938.

To them, the Nationalists had led the way towards Home Rule from the 1880s without trying hard enough to understand Unionist apprehensions, and were instead relying on their mathematical majority of electors.

A bitter war of attrition, in which over 500,000 people died, dragged out until 1 April 1939, when the Nationalists led by Franco had acquired full control of the country.

Hitler intervened on the side of the Nationalists led by Francisco Franco and used the war as an opportunity to test his new air and armoured units in action.

Republicans and some independent Nationalists led opposition to the idea of compulsory military service for Irish men in the conscription crisis of early 1918.

The Nationalists led by Francisco Franco won the Civil War and established a far more authoritarian regime.