Word: moroccans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among the turbulent Rif tribesmen and at the Court of the Sultan at Rabat, as well as his military achievements in pacifying and extending the area under French control, stands in striking contrast to the British devolution of authority in Egypt and the Spanish military reverses in their own Moroccan...
...Kaiserslautern a desperate fight took place between loyal Germans and the Separatists. The casualties were conservatively estimated at two killed, ten wounded. The fight was eventually stopped by French Moroccan troops who fired upon the populace...
Died. A wife of Raisuli*, Moroccan bandit leader, at Tazarut...
...kind of fortification is categorically forbidden. No treaty concluded by the Sultan of Morocco can apply to Tangier unless concurred in by the local government (see following paragraph). Capitulations (extra territorial rights) are abrogated; natives enjoying foreign protection will be under the jurisdiction of European mixed courts. Moroccan francs and Spanish pesatas continue to be legal tender. The Debt Control Commission is to disappear, the Moroccan Government having guaranteed the interest payable on the 1904 and 1910 loans, the Tangier Harbor bonds and the Tangier-Fez Railway bonds, total of more than 4,000,000 francs a year...
...abandoned it to the Moors on account of the expense it involved; in 1905 Kaiser Wilhelm II paid a visit to the port of Tangier on board the Imperial Yacht Hohensollern, remained six hours and said enough to provoke an international crisis; 1906 Conference of Algeciras settled the whole Moroccan question and placed Tangier under temporary international control; 1911 Germany sent the warship Panther to Agadir and another international crisis was occasioned; 1912 France and Spain came to an agreement on Tangier; until 1914 a permanent settlement of the Tangier question was sought without success; immediately after...