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Facts

Also Known As Riff War • War of Melilla
Date 1919 - 1926
Participants France • Rif • Spain

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Spanish soldiers operate artillery cannons in a desert landscape near Melilla, with smoke billowing as a cannon fires during a 1930s battle.
A group of uniformed soldiers digs trenches with shovels while others stand and watch on a dirt mound near Beni Sikar during the Rif War, circa 1930s.
A soldier in a long coat and cap stands in front of an angular, armored tank with riveted metal plating while two men inspect the vehicle in the background.
Spanish soldiers with horses and packed supplies gather on a cobblestone platform beside a train at a station in Madrid, Spain, preparing for departure in the 1930s.
Spanish soldiers march in long columns across a barren landscape in Melilla, Spain, passing the body of a fallen Moorish police officer lying on the ground, circa 1930s.
Group of Moorish prisoners with hands bound, guarded by armed countrymen in uniform, with mounted soldiers in the background, Melilla, Spain, circa 1930s.
Three Moorish policemen in striped robes and turbans guard the entrance of a stone bunker, with two uniformed men standing nearby, circa 1930s.
A group of men in traditional North African clothing sit and stand in an open wooden train car on a railway, with barren ground and buildings in the background.
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