page_title: Bombardment of Mogador
section_title: Conclusion
hierarchical_section_title: Bombardment of Mogador / Conclusion
caption_attribution_description: English: Moroccan_cannon_hit_by_French_fire_in_the_Mogador_bombardment_1844.
context_page_description: The Bombardment of Mogador took place in August 1844, when French Navy forces under the Prince de Joinville attacked the Moroccan city of Mogador, modern Essaouira, and the island facing the city, Mogador island. The campaign was part of the First Franco-Moroccan War.
context_section_description: On 17 August, the British Consul William Willshire was evacuated in exchange for the Moroccan prisoners that were wounded (the French Consul had already left a month before). The British Consul and his family were immediately transferred to the ship Warspite, which had been accompanying the French fleet.
  On the same day, the Véloce was dispatched to Maréchal Bugeaud with the healthy Moroccan prisoners, as well as with the flags taken to the Moroccans, which were deposited with great ceremony at the Invalides on 2 September 1844.
  The war was formally ended September 10, 1844, with the signing of the Treaty of Tangiers, in which Morocco agreed to arrest and outlaw Abd al-Qādir, reduce the size of its garrison at Oujda, and establish a commission to demarcate the border. The French forces evacuated Mogador on September 16, 1844.
  The border, which is essentially the modern border between Morocco and Algeria, was agreed in the Treaty of Lalla Maghnia.
  Following the signature of the treaty, on 4 July 1845, the Véloce brought back the 123 Moroccan prisoners, and remitted them.
  The conflict increased tensions between France and the United Kingdom, which were considered by some to be on the brink of war.
caption: Moroccan cannon hit by a French cannonball in the bombardment of Mogador, August 1844. This was a gun of Spanish manufacture, cast in Barcelona in 1781.
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