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The Rif War in Morocco?
Spanish got their 'asses' handed to them by the fierce local tribes. It was also where Franco earned his spurs enjoying meteoric promotion due to the obvious incompetence of his fellows. The experienced Army of Africa became his powerbase for launching the Spanish Civil War with many of the troops drawn from the very Rif tribes he once fought as a young man.
Expelled people? The Moors of Al-Andalus were driven out of Spain and settled in Tetouan and Chefchaouen. You can see the very distinctive Moorish architecture in these cities to this day and compare it to that of the Alhambra in Granada, as I have done personally...
The Rif War in Morocco?
Spanish got their 'asses' handed to them by the fierce local tribes. It was also where Franco earned his spurs enjoying meteoric promotion due to the obvious incompetence of his fellows. The experienced Army of Africa became his powerbase for launching the Spanish Civil War with many of the troops drawn from the very Rif tribes he once fought as a young man.
Expelled people? The Moors of Al-Andalus were driven out of Spain and settled in Tetouan and Chefchaouen. You can see the very distinctive Moorish architecture in these cities to this day and compare it to that of the Alhambra in Granada, as I have done personally...
The Rif War has it.
I was actually thinking of the Jews of Spain,who had preserved Ladino in Morocco, and greeted the Spanish forces in Mediaeval Spanish.
Franco's forces then went on to employ North Africans in their revolt against the Republic.
1921, July 21
DISASTER AT ANUAL, Morocco, culmination of the troubles there. Gen. Fernandez Silvestre and 20,000 Spaniards were defeated by the Riffians under Abd-el-Krim and 12,000 were killed. Silvestre committed suicide. The disaster precipitated a political crisis and a widespread demand for an investigation of responsibility. A parliamentary commission was established, but its report, when submitted to the cabinet in 1922, was at once suppressed.
DISASTER AT ANUAL, Morocco, culmination of the troubles there. Gen. Fernandez Silvestre and 20,000 Spaniards were defeated by the Riffians under Abd-el-Krim and 12,000 were killed. Silvestre committed suicide. The disaster precipitated a political crisis and a widespread demand for an investigation of responsibility. A parliamentary commission was established, but its report, when submitted to the cabinet in 1922, was at once suppressed.
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