What happened during the Spanish landing at Alhucemas Bay in 1925?

In September 1925, as part of a coordinated joint offensive against the Republic of the Rif, the Spanish military executed an amphibious landing of over 18,000 troops at Alhucemas Bay.12

This operation was strategically synchronized with a simultaneous push of approximately 20,000 French troops from the south, effectively overwhelming the forces of Abd el-Krim, which numbered at most 13,000 men. The landing served as a decisive turning point in the Rif War, leading to the occupation of Abd el-Krim’s home base of Ajdir by Spanish forces on October 2, 1925, and the eventual collapse of his resistance movement by the spring of 1926.12