Word: abd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abd-el-Krim, Moorish rebel against the Spaniards and Moroccan Sultan Mulay Yussef. These officers commanded Raisuli to surrender, informed him that his life would be spared if he did Abd-el-Krim's bidding. Raisuli surrendered, ordered his 16-year-old son and his nephew, Mulai, to proceed to Sheshuan and surrender themselves to the brother of the great Moorish rebel of the Riff country. He signed a letter addressed to Abd-el-Krim himself, stating that, if illness had not prevented him, he would have presented himself in person. Only a short time before, he had written...
...months ago he was named governor of Morocco, with the expectation that he would put down the Mohammedan revolt which has robbed Spain of all Morocco except the seaports. But no, after a few months in the executive turban, Raisuli has returned to an alliance with his nominal enemy, Abd-el-Krim...
From the scanty reports that escaped through the mesh of the Spanish censorship, the war between the Moorish rebels under Abd-el-Krim and the Spanish forces under Director Primo Rivera appeared to be going from bad to worse for the latter...
From a French source, the forces of Abd-el-Krim, "an able chief," were said to be inferior in numbers to the Spanish Army, which numbered approximately...
...other hand, the forces under the ex-bandit Raisuli (subject of President Roosevelt's famed telegram: "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead"), who was recently made a Spanish Governor, were being mobilized for attack on Abd-el-Krim's forces. The Spanish troops were also being concentrated near Tetuan, capital of Spanish Morocco...