Word: tetuan
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...might ask one of the English princes to renounce his allegiance and be her King. Or even some lad of the name of O'Brien or O'Neill might wear the Irish crown. "The Irish King might even be a Spaniard. There is the Duke of Tetuan, for instance. He is The O'Neill, a descendant of the great O'Neill who fled to the Continent with the flight of the Wild Geese,* if you will recall your history. Irishmen then settled in Spain and France and Austria, and some of them became great soldiers...
...early and uncorrupted days, Raisuli was a theological student in the Mohammedan schools of Tetuan, and might today have been a muezzin--truly a romantic figure, but hardly likely to perplex the Spanish government. At present, he is an expert purveyor of hot water: his daily production floods the Spanish market with trouble. As long as Raisuli is doing the acrobatic in Tangier, that sector of the international map will pull the front pages. Meanwhile, he is an answer to those sceptics who doubt the existence of "real, live, kidnapping sheiks...
...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...
Both Spanish public and Moors have long since become used to such state ments from a long succession of Spanish Governments. The Moorish rebels showed their contempt for such drivel by cutting Spanish communications between Tetuan, capital of Spanish Morocco, and Tangier, international zone lying at the extreme northwest corner of Morocco and opposite the great rock of Gilbraltar. This was by far the most decisive victory for the rebels in this year's fighting* and a serious setback to the Spaniards...