The Betrothed of Death: The Spanish Foreign Legion During the Rif Rebellion ... - José E. Alvarez - Google Books

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Following her defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain shifted her colonial focus to her Protectorate in northern Morocco. When Spanish conscripts began to fight and to die by the thousands, political fallout forced the government to create a new…