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Despatches indicated that the French advance outnumbered the Riffian defenders by ten to one.
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First, marched 20 fierce Riffian guards, armed hip and thigh.
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The Riffian Sultan was described by several of his English officers as "the coolest man I ever saw."
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With the spring sun beginning to evaporate the awful ditch-bilge into which Morocco is annually transformed by the winter rains, there emerged into modest headlines that fierce and intractable Riffian, the Amir Muhammad ibn Abd-el-Karim.*
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Some of them went so far as to send warships to cruise along the Riffian coast.
From Great Pirate Stories by Joseph Lewis French
The attack was launched with a suddenness that surprised the Riffians; and, in a magnificent action supported by the troops of Colonel Freydenberg, the heights were captured!
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Mules from Missouri also helped to fight the Riffians.
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The Riffians had advanced along a hundred mile front to the River Vergha on the east.
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For the time being, this strategy destroyed the enemy plans for flank offensives and the Riffians began to concentrate in the centre for a counter offensive.
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Two days' fighting drove the Riffians back into the hills and once again relieved Fez from imminent danger.
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