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Spaniards, upon taking stock of Abd-el-Krim's former general headquarters at Ajdir, became aware that the Riffian war lord had furnished himself with many of the commonplaces of European existence.
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Fought against the Riffian tribes of Abd el Krim in Morocco in the 1920s, stayed on as a native-affairs officer.
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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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While Captain Canning dickered behind closed doors with M. Ponsot, the French Undersecretary for African affairs, pressmen drew from other English-born officers of the Riffian delegation many picturesque details anent the Riff: English Officers.
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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
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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Following this, French and Spanish troops, operating from the extreme west of the fighting line, inflicted a minor defeat on the Riffians.
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Prince Aago of Denmark, nephew of Queen Mother Alexandra of Britain, was wounded in the hand while fighting the Riffians in the French Foreign Legion.
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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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Thus they linked up with their allies the French forces, which have advanced into that region from Kifane, and apparently the Spanish thrust came as a complete surprise to both French and Riffians.
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