France, Spain and the Rif, Part 2
Author: first_name: Walter Burton
last_name: Harris
Language: English
Year: 1927

The Guerra del Rif—the Rif War. 1921 to 1926. It was the slogging bloody 5-year long climax of Spain’s effort to secure dominion over a territory in North Africa allotted them by France; A chapter instigated over a cause no less profane than a mining concession and which would prove to be an unmitigated disaster for all involved; the Spanish, the French and the Iriffiyen.
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This attempted salve for a nation’s wounded prestige would leave more than forty thousand Spaniards as casualties,