First Melillan campaign
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The First Melillan Campaign, also called the Melilla War or the Margallo War (after Juan García y Margallo, the Spanish governor of Melilla whose defeat and death infuriated the Spanish public) in Spain, was a conflict between Spain and 39 of the Rif tribes of northern Morocco, and later the Sultan of Morocco, that began in October 1893, was openly declared November 9, 1893, and was resolved by the Treaty of Fez in 1894.
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This article is about an early Hispano-Moroccan conflict in the Rif. For the later Melillan campaigns, see Hispano-Moroccan wars.
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Melilla War | |||||||||
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Part of the Spanish-Moroccan conflicts and Scramble for Africa | |||||||||
War in Morocco, Death of the Spanish General Margallo, from Le Petit Journal, 13 November 1893. | |||||||||
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Spain | |||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Juan Margallo † Martínez-Campos |
Hassan I Baja al-Arbi | ||||||||
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25,000 regulars and militia | 40,000 irregulars |
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