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    Congreso Isla de Isabel II Isla del Rey Islas Alhucemas Peñón de Alhucemas Isla de Tierra Isla de Mar Tabarca Illes Medes Formigues Mazarrón Isla de Perejil...
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    and established a joint collaboration with Spain that culminated in the Alhucemas landing, which proved a turning point. The Spanish also used chemical...
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    lieutenant general. In 1925 he participated in the amphibious landing at Alhucemas. With the completion of the 1920 Rif War, King Alfonso XIII awarded him...
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    Morocco, and the islands and peñones (rocks) of Alborán, Chafarinas, Alhucemas, and Perejil. Spain is a democracy organized in the form of a parliamentary...
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    dependency tax haven banner 'not fair'". BBC News. 10 September 2013. "An Ill Wind". IFC Review. Karmanau, Yuras (4 April 2016). "Ukrainian president under...
    71 KB (6,621 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2024
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    are preferred by the general public. Although the environment is generally ill-suited for golf, there is a golf course in Nuuk. The national dish of Greenland...
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    colonel. Franco led the first wave of troops ashore at Al Hoceima (Spanish: Alhucemas) in 1925. This landing in the heartland of Abd el-Krim's tribe, combined...
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    known as the presidios menores (Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, las Islas de Alhucemas, las Islas de Chafarinas). The Spanish Empire was one of the first global...
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  • Romance calendario v. Arabic almanaque, hucha v. alcancía, espliego v. alhucema etc. Because Canarian and all Hispanic American dialects are mainly derived...
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    hegemony in the archipelago. By the end of the 17th century, only Melilla, Alhucemas, Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (which had been taken again in 1564), and...
    151 KB (16,692 words) - 17:28, 12 November 2024
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    able to capture all the major towns and cities in southern Ireland. The Alhucemas landing on 8 September 1925, performed by a Spanish-French coalition against...
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    only 15 lived past that winter. The explorers called the island Malhado (“Ill fate” in Spanish), or the Island of Doom. They tried to repair the rafts...
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    purchased 26-28 X-Lighters. During the Rif War, they were used in the 1925 Alhucemas landing, arguably the first major amphibious landing in which tanks were...
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    State of the Moroccan government until March 1975, when he fell gravely ill and was flown to Madrid to be treated. He died at the Air Force Hospital...
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  • Grenville (ed.). "The Mystery Ship: Tragedy of the S.S. Hewitt and Other Ill-Fated Vessels". National Service. 9 (6). New York: Military Training Publishing...
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    troops pushed through from the south while the Spanish fleet secured Alhucemas Bay by an amphibious landing, and began attacking from the north. After...
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    Concha ran aground due to dense fog in hostile Moroccan territory near Alhucemas, Spanish Morocco where they were set upon by Kabyle rebels. The crew of...
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