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The
Landing of Alhucemas, action military Spaniard made
on the beaches of the homonymous bay (located in the
Moroccan mediterranean coast) September 8 1925 that,
after putting an end to the long and intermittent wars
of Morocco, he/she opened a new stage in the Hispanic
intervention in the north of África.
In 1921, soon after the disaster of Annual, the Spanish
presence in Morocco you very delicate tornó.
After a hesitant stage, also prolonged by Rivera's general
Miguel Cousin who exercised the dictatorship from 1923,
this he/she decided in 1925 to make a landing in this
mediterranean bay. Their object was the support of the
crag of Lavenders, besieged by the rebellious forces
of Abd-the-Krim, as well as the extension of the Spanish
domain of the oriental area. The coordination with the
French fleet, the military preparation and the good
climatic conditions were in the base of the success.
Drifted by one of the vowels of the Military Directory,
Francisco Gómez Jordanian, and directed personally
by the own dictator, the true boss of the forces that
you/they carried out the landing was the military commandant
of Melilla José Sanjurjo.
Starting from 1926, the Spanish troops that had arrived
to 100.000 men, decreased drastically due to the defeat
of Abd-the-Krim. For Cousin of Rivera, Lavenders supposed
the moment of more popularity that he/she didn't know
how to take advantage to give up the exercise of the
dictatorship. In 1927, the effective occupation of the
Spanish Protectorate would begin on Morocco.
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