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| The '''military history of ]''' covers a vast time period and complex events. It interacts with multiple military events in a vast area containing ] |
The '''military history of ]''' covers a vast time period and complex events. It interacts with multiple military events in a vast area containing ] to conquest ]. | ||
| ==The Roman conquests== | |||
| ] (a Berber prince) fighting in the ]. Berber cavalry fought with shield and throwing javelins.]] | |||
| Just after defeating the ] and destructing the city of ] in nowadays ] during the ], the ] took possession of ] and divided it into two ]. In the west, ] was developed by the creation of roads, agricultural innovations and trade expansions. | |||
| In the mountainous areas, the ] tribes resisted to the Roman invasions. The Roman influence will be preserved in the south until 285 AD. As of the end of 4th century AD, under the reign of the Roman emperor ], the Romans maintained nothing but one thin presence on the coast, around Tangier.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070416130841/http://www.herodote.net/dossiers/synthese.php5?ID=23 |date=2007-04-16 }} - Herodote.net {{fr icon}}</ref> They remained in the north until 429 AD; date of the passage of the ] in this part of Mauretania Tingitana. In 533 AD, the ] fleets and then the ]s occupied ] and ]. | |||
| ==The Arab conquests== | |||
| {{Main|Umayyad conquest of North Africa}} | |||
| ==Berber revolt== | |||
| {{Main|Berber Revolt}} | |||
| ==Territorial expansions== | |||
| {{See also|Almoravid dynasty}} | |||
| {{See also|Almohad Caliphate}} | |||
| {{See also|Marinid dynasty}} | |||
| {{See also|Wattasid dynasty}} | |||
| {{See also|Saadi dynasty}} | |||
| ==Moroccan-Portuguese Wars== | |||
| {{Main|Moroccan-Portuguese conflicts}} | |||
| {{Moroccan-Portuguese conflicts}} | |||
| The Battle of Alcácer Quibir (also known as "Battle of Three Kings" was a war in northern Morocco, near the town of Kasar El-Kebir and Larache, on 4 August 1578. | |||
| The battle was between the Moroccan Sultan Abu Abdallah Mohammed II, and his ally, the King of Portugal Sebastian I, against a large Moroccan army nominally under the new Sultan of Morocco (and uncle of Abu Abdallah Mohammed II) Abd Al-Malik I. | |||
| The Christian king, Sebastian I, had other plans, and planned a takeover, and crusade. | |||
| The defeat of Portugal and attendant death of the childless Sebastian led to the end of the Aviz dynasty in effect portugal of then, and the only choice was the integration of the country in the Iberian Union for 60 years under the Philippine Dynasty in a dynastic union with Spain. | |||
| over 8000 portuguese deaths, 15000 captured, it was a disastrous campaign, that ended the portuguese dynasty, and to survive it had to join with Spain. | |||
| <ref>]</ref>{{Better source|reason=per WP:CIRCULAR|date=December 2017}} | |||
| ==Barbary wars== | ==Barbary wars== | ||
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See also: Military of MoroccoThe military history of Morocco covers a vast time period and complex events. It interacts with multiple military events in a vast area containing North Africa to conquest Greater Morocco.
Barbary wars
Main articles: First Barbary War and Second Barbary WarThough Morocco was not part of the Ottoman empire, Moroccan pirates held their activities in both the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean. They used two main ports as bases; Salé and Tétouan. Salé pirates roamed the seas as far as the shores of the Americas, bringing back loot and slaves. The character Robinson Crusoe, in Daniel Defoe's novel by the same name, sailed off from the mouth of the Bou Regreg river.
In 1783 the United States made peace with and was recognized by Great Britain, and in 1784 the first American ship was captured by pirates from Morocco. The stars and stripes was a new flag to them. After six months of negotiation, a treaty of friendship between the U.S. and Morocco was signed, $60,000 cash was paid, and trade began. Morocco was the first independent nation to recognize the United States back in 1778.
Franco-Moroccan Wars
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First Franco-Moroccan Wars
The First Franco-Moroccan War consisted of a series of conflicts fought between France and its colonial administrators on one side, and the sultanate of Morocco on the other. The principal cause of war involved the retreat of Algerian resistance leader `Abd al-Qādir into Morocco following French victories over many of his tribal supporters in the French conquest of Algeria. The name of the conflict can be misleading however, seeing the first conflict between the two nations took place during the Larache expedition, after the Seven Years' War.
Second Franco-Moroccan Wars
The Second Franco-Moroccan War took place in 1911, when Moroccan forces besieged the French-occupied city of Fez. Approximately one month later, French forces brought the siege to an end. On March 30, 1912, Sultan AbdelHafid signed the Treaty of Fez, formally ceding Moroccan sovereignty to France, which established a protectorate. On April 17, 1912, Moroccan infantrymen mutinied in the French garrison in Fez. The Moroccans were unable to take the city and were defeated by a French relief force. In late May 1912, Moroccan forces unsuccessfully attacked the enhanced French garrison at Fez.
Spanish-Moroccan war
Spanish-Moroccan War (1859)Resistance against colonialism
Zaian War
Main article: Zaian WarThe Rif wars
Main article: Rif WarsIfni War
Main article: Ifni WarUse of Moroccan recruits by the colonial forces
During the period of the French protectorate of Morocco (1912–1956) large numbers of Moroccans were recruited for service in the Spahi and Tirailleur regiments of the French Army of Africa. During World War II more than 300,000 Moroccan troops (including goumier auxiliaries) served with the Free French forces in North Africa, Italy, France and Austria. The two world conflicts saw Moroccan units earning the nickname of "Todesschwalben" (death swallows) by German soldiers as they showed particular toughness on the battlefield . By the end of the World War II, Moroccan troops took part of the French Expeditionary Force engaged in the First Indochina War from 1946 to 1954.
The Spanish Army also made extensive use of Moroccan troops recruited in the Spanish Protectorate, during both the Rif War of 1921-26 and the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. Moroccan Regulares, together with the Spanish Legion, made up Spain's elite Spanish Army of Africa. A para-military gendarmerie, known as the "Mehal-la Jalifianas" and modelled on the French goumieres, was employed within the Spanish Zone.
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The Sand War
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Before the French colonization in the 19th century, parts of southern and western Algeria belonged to Morocco. In the 1930s and later in the 1950s, France had integrated into what was known as the Overseas Département of French Algeria, the areas of Tindouf and Bechar. When Morocco gained independence in 1956, it wanted to reassert sovereignty over these areas. In an effort to cut the support that the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) was getting from Morocco, France offered to return those areas in exchange for Morocco stopping that support. King Mohammed V refused to make a deal with France behind the back of the "Algerian brothers", and agreed with the Algerian provisional government's nationalist leader Ferhat Abbas, that once Algeria gained its independence it would renegotiate the status of the Tindouf and Bechar areas.
However, immediately after Algeria's independence, and before his agreement with the Moroccan King Muhammad V could be formally ratified, the first Algerian provisional president Ferhat Abbas was purged from the FLN government by a military-backed coalition led by the first Algerian provisional president Ahmad Ben Bella. The last, bloody years of the FLN's rebellion had been fought essentially to prevent France from splitting off the Sahara regions from the emerging Algerian state, and thus neither Ben Bella nor the rest of the wartime FLN were inclined to give them up to Morocco when independence was achieved. The Algerians therefore recognized neither Morocco's historical nor its political claims. Instead, they perceived the Moroccan demands as an attempt to infringe the country's hard-won independence and pressure it when it was at its weakest. Algeria was still reeling from the enormous damage caused by its war against French colonialism, and the government scarcely held control over its entire territory - significantly, a Berber anti-FLN rebellion under the leadership of Hocine Aït Ahmed had recently flared up in the Kabyle mountains. Tension escalated, as neither side wanted to back down.
Skirmishes along the border eventually escalated into a full-blown confrontation, with intense fighting around the oasis towns of Tindouf and Figuig. The Algerian army, just formed from the guerrilla ranks of the FLN's Armé de Libération Nationale (ALN) was still geared towards asymmetric warfare, and had little high-powered equipment . They were still battle-ready and held tens of thousands of experienced veterans, and strengthening the armed forces had been a top priority for the military-dominated post-war government. On the other hand, while being modern, western-equipped Moroccan army was superior on the battlefield, it did not manage to penetrate into Algeria. The war stalemated with the intervention of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the Arab league and it was broken off after approximately three weeks. The OAU eventually managed to arrange a formal cease-fire on February 20, 1964. A peace agreement was then made after Arab League mediation, and a demilitarized zone instituted but hostilities simmered.
The Western Sahara conflict
Main articles: History of Western Sahara and Western Sahara WarSee also
References and notes
- Fremont-Barnes, Gregory (2006). "Outbreak". The Wars of the Barbary Pirates: To the Shores of Tripoli: The Birth of the US Navy and Marines. Osprey Publishing. p. 32. ISBN 1-84603-030-7.
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- How Cuba aided revolutionary Algeria in 1963 - Usenet.com
- Armed Conflict Events Data - Onwar.com
- The 1963 border war and the 1972 treaty - Arabworld.nitle.org
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