The Rif War, also called the Second Moroccan War, was fought in the early 1920s between Spain (later assisted by France) and the Moroccan Berbers of the Rif mountainous region.
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“At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
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