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Except in Morocco, Spanish troops continued to wear colourful dress uniforms for parade and off-duty wear; a feature that quickly disappeared in all armies directly involved in the war. [9] The main rifle of the Spanish Army at this time was a version of the Mauser, manufactured in Oviedo in 7 mm caliber, known as the Mauser Model 1893 rifle. [10]
The continuing anti-slavery movement in Western Europe became a reason and an excuse for the conquest and colonization of Africa. It was the central theme of the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference 1889–90. From start of the Scramble for Africa, virtually all colonial regimes claimed to be motivated by a desire to suppress slavery and the slave ...
In the early historical period, colonies were founded in North Africa by migrants from Europe and Western Asia, particularly Greeks and Phoenecians. Under Egypt 's Pharaoh Amasis (570–526 BC) a Greek mercantile colony was established at Naucratis , some 50 miles from the later Alexandria. [ 2 ]
In November 1975, while Generalissimo Francisco Franco was in his last illness, over 350,000 Moroccans and 20,000 Moroccan troops held the "Green March" into Spanish Sahara to force Spain to hand over the disputed territory. After Spanish withdrawal from Western Sahara, the Western Sahara War began. In 1976 the Polisario Front declared a ...
However, this experience would prove to be profitable for future Spanish overseas expansion, because as the Spaniards were excluded from the lands discovered or to be discovered from the Canaries southward [33] —and consequently from the road to India around Africa [34] —they sponsored the voyage of Columbus towards the west (1492) in ...
The third period (Spanish: Conquista Realenga) of the Spanish conquest of the Canaries was different from the first in a number of ways: The Catholic Monarchs commanded and armed the invading forces. The funding for the enterprise was the responsibility of the Crown and individuals interested in the economic exploitation of the island's resources.
Spanish-Moroccan conflicts (since 1492): Conquest of Melilla (1497) Spanish expedition to Tlemcen (1543) Capture of La Mámora (1614) Siege of Mamora (1681) Siege of Larache (1689) Siege of Asilah (1690–1691) Siege of Oran (1693) Siege of Melilla (1694–1696) Siege of Melilla (1774–1775) Hispano-Moroccan War (1790–1791) Hispano-Moroccan ...
Ferro, Marc, Colonization: A Global History (1997) Gibbons, H.A. The New Map of Africa (1900–1916): A History of European Colonial Expansion and Colonial Diplomacy (1916) online free; Hopkins, Anthony G., and Peter J. Cain. British Imperialism: 1688–2015 (Routledge, 2016). Mackenzie, John, ed. The Encyclopedia of Empire (4 vol 2016) Maltby ...