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Steven Thomas, 1920–1927 Rif War / Second Moroccan War; The Rif War 1893 (sic) on OnWar.com. Chemical Weapons: Tenth Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the CWC 7–11 November 2005, The Hague, The Netherlands; Rif war; David Montgomery Hart, The Aith Waryaghar of the Moroccan Rif : an ethnography and history. Published for the ...
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The Republic was dissolved by Spanish and French occupation forces on 27 May 1926, but many Rif guerrillas continued to fight until 1927. [18] Abd-el-Krim boarding a Fez-Tangier train in 1926 on his way to exile in the Indian Ocean island of Réunion. In April 1925, Abd el-Krim proclaimed the independent Republic in the Rif region of Spanish ...
An outline of British military history, 1660–1936 (1936). online; Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present (1993). Fortescue, John William. History of the British Army from the Norman Conquest to the First World War (1899–1930), in 13 volumes with six separate map volumes.
The Rif War witnessed the use of chemical weapons in the 1920s by the Spanish army. [13] [14] In 1958, some Riffians revolted against the government. [3] In the decades that followed, the Rif region has witnessed popular demonstrations and demands for better education, healthcare and job opportunities.
The Battle of Annual was fought on 22 July 1921 at Annual, in northeastern Morocco, between the Spanish Army and Rifian Berbers during the Rif War.The Spanish suffered a major military defeat, which is almost always referred to by the Spanish as the Disaster of Annual (Spanish: Desastre de Annual) which is widely considered to be the worst defeat suffered by the modern Spanish Army.
In 1920, Abd el-Krim, together with his brother, began a war of rebellion against the Spanish incursions. [22] [23] His goal was to unite the tribes of the Rif into an independent Republic of the Rif, to dismantle the entire French-Spanish colonial project in Morocco and to introduce modern political reform. [24]