The Alger-Moroccan war (2018-2022)

**The Alger-Moroccan war,** sometimes know as the **War of land and sea,** Was a conflict fought between Algeria and her **allies** and Morocco and some of her allies. The war also sparked the **Anglo-Moroccan war (2022)** , but some would argue this was just another theatre of the war.

Conflict between Algeria and Morocco broke out after a collapse of trade agreement and increasing tensions. After a terror attack hit southern Algeria in a sparsely populated area, war was declared on June 7 2018.

Immediately action was taken, France, having Algeria as a former colony, declared war on Morocco, blockading the port of Casablanca and the capital of Rabat within a week. Tunisia declared war on Morocco in late November 2018, in response Mali, who'd secretly signed a deal with Morocco, declared war on Algeria.

The first battle of the war, The **battle of Figuig Provence,** Saw 500,000 well equipped and well trained Algerian infantry plus 20 heavy artillery plus 4,000 French infantry plus 100 Tunisian infantry face 20,000 Moroccan soldiers, and, quite obviously, the Algerians won.

Algeria won the **Battles of Merzouga and Bouarfa.** But lost the **Battle of Timiaouine** to advancing attackers from Mali .

A lot happened during March 2019, **Tunisia won the battles of Mellila and Nador** but failed to follow up thanks to poor supplies, a stalemate ensued at the **battle of Tinzaouten** Between advancing Mali forces and the much smaller Algerian defence, halting the Malian advance.

During October Algeria took all the way up to Marrakesh, with surprisingly little resistance.

However, the Algerian third, fourth and sixth divisions were all surrounded by over 100,000 Moroccan men during their stay in Marrakesh. Instead of taking prisoners the Moroccans decided to obliterate these armies, there were no survivors.

During 2020, the war started to slow down, with there only being three battles, **the Second battle of Tinzaouten,** resulting in a second stalemate, **the** **battle of Tantan** in which Morocco lost its last resistance on the southern border with the disputed area of western sahara, and **the battle of eleven months**, which, unsurprisingly, lasted eleven months between August 2020 and July 2021, and was fought over the port of Safi, resulting in a Algerian Victory and the encirclement of 78,000 troops and 40 heavy artillery, the last troops south of Marrakesh.

A naval battle, the first of the war, was also fought in 2020. On one side, three merchant ships from France heading to Algeria, and two Algerian escort ships, named *321* and *400*, on the other side the Morrocan patrol boat HMS *Aziza.* After heavy fighting HMS *Aziza* was sunk while trying to retreat, and two merchant ships, accompanied by *400*, were forced to land on the nearby island of Menorca for repairs. The battle was to be known as **the battle of 400 fish**

The new year was to start with a naval battle also, **the Battle of Rabat**, on the third of January the French blockade of Rabat, now exceeding 120 destroyers and had near 300 submarines, was threatened by 20 fly-by Mirage M-VI bombers and over 100 submarines, however, the blockade held.

The Algerians wiped out the remains of the Moroccan official army in **the battle of casablanca**, along with aid from French naval forces, and **the battle for Morocco**, sometimes known as **the battle of Fes.** The Moroccan government however, refused to surrender, leading to the English deceleration of war in early January 2022, leading to the **treaty of Bamako**,the **treaty of Ipswich**, **making Mali quit the war, and, after the remnants Moroccan navy were captured,** thetreaties of Nice, Tunis, Rabat and Glasgow.

The war the start of the end of Morocco, and the start of increasing tensions between Mali and Algeria.