Word: sheshuan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sheshuan (which one is at liberty to spell in almost any possible way. -Chechaouen, Chechouan, Shishawen, Sheshaun, Sheshuan, Chechaoen), which is the Riffian headquarters at the western end of their sausage, was bombed 17 times by the Sherifian Escadrille (volunteer American aviators) with the destruction of many buildings and the estimated killing of 100 Riffians...
...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 rudely...
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