Why was the Spanish Civil War Won in Morocco?

[@mehdimchich5400]

My grandpa from Tetuan , Morocco fought in this war and he used to tell me that most of Moroccans fought for Franco because he told them that Communists are non beliviers and they bombed a Moroccan ship taking people to Mecca for pilgrimage ( which can't be confirmed or denied ) so it was time for Jihad

[@ghrtfhfgdfnfg]

Not to praise the man, but Franco’s military genius is undeniable

[@vorynrosethorn903]

I mean it's not like he was lying.

Franco as always a deceiver, same as "allah" the biggest of deceivers as stated in the quran.

@@vorynrosethorn903 it wasn't a such thing like Spain bombed a ship heading to Mecca. The non believer well that's given, right?

[@shadowbannedaccont9479]

I'd gladly work with Muslims to end Communist or fascist take overs.

[@Muslim-og3vc]

So you telling me a guy called Francisco Franco ruled Spain and not France?

[@ghrtfhfgdfnfg]

Well, he did reinstate a French royal house

[@tylersmith3139]

@@ghrtfhfgdfnfg His name comes from Latin Franciscus, meaning "a Frankish man"while France comes from Latin "Francia", meaning country of the Franks(which is ironic since most people living in France then and now are of mainly Celtic Roman descent)

[@ghrtfhfgdfnfg]

@@tylersmith3139 yes, Francisco Franco literally means Frank Frank

[@CondeDeBarca]

That’s Spain for you, we hate France, but truth be told we’re more similar to them than we care to admit

[@pierren___]

François le Français*

[@flawlessbinary7449]

FUN FACT: Franco gave Muslim soldiers a free pilgrimage to Mecca after the war

[@AdamAzzr]

Not him, but General Mohamed Mezziane, a Moroccan Général who worked with Franco

[@migamaos3953]

@@AdamAzzr Franco had to approve it and allocate funds for it though, even if it was Mezziane’s idea

[@GieBaNa]

Hahaha hypocrisy keeps the 🌎 spinning. But any source?

[@oussamametrab2961]

Hé also give spanish women for moroccan army

[@freerolll]

@@oussamametrab2961 Gving spanish women makes it sound like it was a slave trade. Spanish women were in love with some moroccans and let it happen. It was something that was illigal prior to this event.

[@expandedhistory]

An interesting side note is that Spanish officials in Morocco established three distinct troops that entered the Spanish Civil War unified under the name of El Ejército de África (Army of Africa): La Policía Indígena (Indigenous Police) which grew into Las Regulares (The Regulars), Los Legionarios (The Legionaries), and the Mehalas Jalifianas (Halifian Troops).

[@adamorick2872]

That sounds like 4 groups

[@shakezist]

So basically the fascists hired a bunch of mercenaries

[@ghrtfhfgdfnfg]

@@shakezist pretty much but they were colonial mercenaries, so they’re glorified more

[@shakezist]

@@ghrtfhfgdfnfg it's kinda ironic that the Muslim rulers did something similar a few centuries earlier

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@ghrtfhfgdfnfg How are they mercenaries?

[@samwill7259]

I remember one of my favorite history podcasts talking about how the home base in Morocco was possibly a trump card in the nationalist favor that the republicans just couldn't out match. For a simple reasons that it was always going to BE there no matter what, even if the civil war didn't originally go the way the nationalist wanted. Even if Franco ends up bungling the mainland campaigns and is forced out to north africa...well you still have to go GET him if you actually want to remove him from there, and there's no way the republicans would have been able to dislodge his african stronghold.

[@SaifMUFC20]

What's the podcast?

[@aldomartinez421]

What"s the name of the podcast?

[@samwill7259]

@@aldomartinez421 ​ Talkernate History. It's here on KZbin. It's my favorite podcast bar none. It's actually an alternative history podcast, rather than a full history podcast (like, alternative history fiction not like, crank shit). I suggest you check it out, just beware neither of the hosts are full time content creators so the schedule's spotty but it's really worth it.

[@samwill7259]

@@SaifMUFC20 Talkernate History. It's here on KZbin. It's my favorite podcast bar none. It's actually an alternative history podcast, rather than a full history podcast (like, alternative history fiction not like, crank shit). I suggest you check it out, just beware neither of the hosts are full time content creators so the schedule's spotty but it's really worth it.

[@SaifMUFC20]

@@samwill7259 oh okk ty

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Pretty obvious the civil war only happened so Spain could have its minute of fame in HOI IV

[@commieking1443]

the most powerful leader in HOI VI in spain Was Mohamed Ameziane from Los Regulares lol

[@realhawaii5o]

Hi. I see you everywhere

[@shrekwithawillsmithface465]

@@commieking1443 I love how his name means little mohamed In Riffian

[@CondeDeBarca]

Yeah man every time I see those two conflicting sides on the map I feel a burst of pride *that’s my country* I think, *It’s so beautiful. Greetings from Barcelona

[@alexwendler5479]

Great work. For the longest time was staring at the map of Spanish Morocco, wondering about Cueta. Then it clicked. ¡Ceuta!

[@tylersmith3139]

Are you Spanish? Since you wrote ¡Ceuta! Not Ceuta!

[@alexwendler5479]

Chilean instead, but spanish speaker as well!

[@CondeDeBarca]

@@tylersmith3139 dude in Spanish when we put exclamation marks we put an upsidedown one before and after the sentence, if anything, this proves he is Spanish, read up before you make comments like that

[@averageborincano9691]

@@CondeDeBarca border, bájale, el tipo namás preguntó algo sencillo por curiosidad y en buen fe. El mismo notó aquello de los signos de exclamación.

[@CondeDeBarca]

@@averageborincano9691 A mí que me importa soy irlandes jaja

[@rodanmax1087]

I have no words to thank you for all the work you are doing to spread the history of my country in such a didactic way and with such respect.

[@expandedhistory]

It’s also worth noting that Spain had a weak presence in Morocco for centuries until the humiliating losses incurred at the end of the 19th century with the Spanish-American war made Morocco the final foreign Spanish territory. Although Spanish Morocco offered little financial gain to mainland Spain, many officials were determined to maintain it. From the first moment these officials entered Spanish Morocco, two separate groups emerged: Las Africanistas (African-ists) and Las Africanomilitaristas (African-militarists). Las Africanistas dedicated themselves to the study of the Moroccan people and established positive relationships with the locals. Las Africanomilitaristas took advantage of these relationships with the goal of expanding commerce under a clandestine agenda of strengthening their conservative ideology.

[@anselmo4952]

The spanish presence in Moroco was caused for the fear about the Germans Will take Moroco.

[@omineol9897]

spain only comed to morocco in 1912 and left between 1956 - 1975

[@emeraldeyedstruggler3362]

@@omineol9897 kangol came machi comed, ya wjah zb chewahtina

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Actually the Africanists were also that other one. They argued that Morocco was as racially pure as Spaniards and that they should stay, most people wanted out. What I cannot but find surprising is that, Franco definitely informed others of this, the military forces in Africa were the veterans and elite of some of the hardest guerilla fighting possible at the time.

[@kuroazrem5376]

It is also worth noting two things: 1. A riffian general, Mohammed ben Mizzian, was instrumental in raising the Regulares, as well as saving Franco during his time in Morocco. He even became a general in both, Spain and Morocco. 2. Franco's personal guard was made up of riffian troops, known as "La Guardia Mora" (the Moorish guard).

[@roberteendres]

Awesome video once again, I love your Spanish Civil War stuff. A very interesting conflict that has very little coverage up on KZbin and you definitely lead the way in it. Can't wait for the follow up video!

[@libraryofalexander6819]

Your work literally helped inspire me to make a channel and begin history videos, so thank you.

[@YasserMaghribi]

That was the first time gas was used against a civilian population. The Moroccans suffered terribly in this war, even if the Moroccans got some incredible victories against the Spanish, like for example the battle of Annual where 3000 Moroccans defeated 23 000 Spanish. Even Mao was inspired by Abd El Krim Al Khattabi's tactics of guerilla. 14:00 that's scary

[@mobouz2753]

Not moroccans butt RIFFIANS. The moroccans fought with the spanish and french against the riffians.

[@fmfm7722]

@@mobouz2753 exactly. it was the amazighs riffians that fought the spanish in north of morocco. and the amazigh chleuh in the south in the ifni-guelmim region. my grandpa is amazigh (chluh) who was part of the amazigh resistance in the south and said that the arab army of the monarchy (mainly the hassani sahrawis) helped that spanish army and committed inhumane mass rapes and massacre against the berbers of the anti-atlas in the south who dared fight against the colons. there are literally so much rolls of footage showing the arabs helping the spanish and french fight the amazighs during that period. a lot of arab sahrawis to this day claim allegiance to spain, like the case of the polisario.

[@mohamedred5746]

@@mobouz2753 What silly Alkharian Propaganda

[@mohamedred5746]

@@mobouz2753 yeah this load of nonsenses only come from one people

[@morocco_020fc7]

@@fmfm7722 Pls stfu, why are you making it an Arab/Amazigh thing when it totally isn't. Stop with the ethnic bs. The Rif war wasn't the Riffians against the Spanish but People of the Rif against the Spanish including Arab groups such as the Jbala which were alongside the amazigh Riffians the biggest group and also the semi-Arab/amazigh Ghamora people. Abdel Karim Al-Khattabi needed both the Arab and Amazigh populations to unite and work together which worked and he never claimed it to be an amazigh victory because it wasn't. As an jbli my people fought as much as the rwafa and my grandpa was part of the resistance as an Arab. Spread your ethnic conflicts somewhere else.

[@nico-9805]

As a Spaniard, i have to say your pronunciation is fantastic! Thanks for covering this fascinating part of Spanish history!

[@valverdee1859]

Menos por q en vez de Ceuta dice Cueta xd

[@Zakariya3603]

"Fascinating"

[@morocco_020fc7]

My grandma used to tell us all the time of the Spanish in my city in Morocco and she said that many people went on to fight for Spain just to make some money fast or be useful. She also talked abt how day to day life was under the Spanish and how she and many other girls were part of this girls catholic school which they needed to be part of to get some food she still could speak some Spanish.

[@iLLeag7e]

thanks for the content hilbert! I can always count on you to introduce me to foreign history's finest moments.

[@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658]

An interesting fact 72.6% of the total gold reserves of Spain were transferred from their original location in Madrid to the Soviet Union a few months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. This transfer was made by order of the government of the Second Spanish Republic.

[@sebastianprimomija8375]

So the Spanish Republican Government artificially impoverished the country out of spite? or what?

[@carlospargamendez4784]

Perhaps because the Spanish gouvernement had to pay the soviet weapons. Churchill had to pay the american weapons too until 1941. Obviously without military rebellion the gold would have remained in Spain. Ah! And Spain paid to Italy until 1967 the italians weapons of Franco.

[@christiansebastian9509]

Communists

[@carlospargamendez4784]

@@christiansebastian9509 obviously the communist Party in Spain in 1936 was very small and never controlled the gouvernement,.but the fascist propaganda....

[@roberteendres]

I think you mean the Third Spanish Republic but yes you are correct. They feared Madrid would fall in the early days on the war and transferred the gold to the Soviet Union who was supplying them arms (who were the only major country willing to).

[@Bronxguyanese]

One thign I noticed about spanish history is that Africa played a huge role in the conquest of Spain especially when Spain is divided politically. When the Arabs conquered Spain, Spain was divided, napoleon Bonaparte used moraccans soldiers as shock troops in Spain. And with spanish Civil War moraccans also played a role with nationalist victory.

[@savioblanc]

Interesting. I see the same history being repeated in Spain as they face demographic challenges

[@fhirvhdyg5gjyefhitzaphgbiu748]

How did Napoleon use moroccan soldiers ? There was little contact between France and Morocco at the time. Perhaps you're talking about some egyptian troops

[@Bronxguyanese]

@@fhirvhdyg5gjyefhitzaphgbiu748 he used moorish soldiers from Morocco as a component in his militarily

[@ascendedi6202]

arab never conquered spain, moroccan did

[@AbdouSefiani]

It's interesting that Napoleon Bonaparte employed Moroccan troops in his conquest of Spain, do you have the reference for that?

[@charliezobel511]

One of your best videos, absolutely spot on mate! Reciting what an outstanding military commander Franco was is not glorifying him in the slightest.

[@TheLocalLt]

Good video! The history between Spain and Morocco is long and fascinating, going back centuries, with Spain’s renewed campaigns dating to the 1859-60 war. There’s actually a two-part series documenting and mapping the whole history since 1860, including during the Rif War and Spanish Civil War, over on the Wayback history channel called “Spanish Morocco & Spanish West Africa”

[@AdamAzzr]

Actually it's longer, started in the 8th century.

[@omar.thegamer2016]

You forgot andulisa from 800 till 1400 somting

[@Dragoncam13]

Great Videos as always!

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Ah yes, when Spain lost Cuba, Philippines, and Puerto Rico... Philippines and Puerto Rico: You have freed us! USA: Oh, I wouldn’t say “freed”, more like USA proceeding to make them territories: *UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT*

[@GieBaNa]

@Hilbert great vid thanks, really hope you make second one 🙏

[@MuhammadUsman-mi4jk]

It’s very interesting to see this as a Moroccan especially when the French employed Moroccans during WW2 from tribes like mine who had fought them in the 1920’s. Their combat effectiveness is not only a result of them fighting Europeans with inferior equipment, tactics, and manpower during the prior decades, but also due to the anarchy that preceded Morocco’s colonization in 1912. As the central Moroccan government collapsed in the 1890’s, the tribes began to fight one another in tribal raiding and participated in Moroccan civil wars and uprisings. The French and Spanish essentially inherited these problems from the Moroccan monarchy when they signed the Treaty of Fes. Anyways this topics reminds me a lot of the Russians employing Chechens today or the Romans auxiliary troops and Carthaginian mercenaries. It’s like hiring the guy who broke your nose as a security guard.

[@rauljvila]

Great video thanks! I think you forgot to add this video to the playlist "The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)".

[@joemamae1007]

i'm nothern moroccan, and i've had four of my relatives fight for franco in the civil war, one of em was my great grandfather who actually performed really well in war so they had named a small street in ceuta after him, and one of the other relatives was more like a police officer he then died after joining the resistance

[@SunsetNova]

Fascinating history between Morocco and Spain. Two countries with intertwined histories going back centuries.

[@Ilyaselkandoussi]

Morocco and Spain have been in conflict for more than a milenia.

[@SunsetNova]

@@Ilyaselkandoussi More like sibling rivalry. Love hate relationship

[@Ilyaselkandoussi]

@@SunsetNova cant disagree with this

[@maassrddd]

@Jesse we need to pray jesse No is not morocco Is morocco🇲🇦🇲🇦☪️

[@ziyadrgb9584]

@Jesse we need to pray jesse morroco was before Andalus

[@a.delafrancesca1459]

Such a great video. Thank you! (From a spaniard)

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

[@ekszentrik]

Never forget about the Rif war, where the failure of a state. Spain, had to be bailed out by France to put down a war of liberation by an oppressed people, if you ever need to remember that liberal democracies are not "the good guys". Think about colonization what you want, but at the very least you could say it brings "civilization" and infrastructure. But putting down a revolt is different, as it is rejection of whatever were these supposedly """beneficial""" colonization projects. Also Morocco had nothing to gain, they had a fine enough modern state before the French took it over and gifted Spain part of it out of pity.

[@hispalismapping155]

" fine enough modern" Literally the Moroccan sultanate was a fiefdom where 80% of the "territory" were areas totally indifferent to the Government's mandate. They did not even reach absolutism

[@ekszentrik]

@@hispalismapping155 >hurr preindustrial uncentralized states had preindustrial uncentralized problems I talk about the ability to enter diplomatic treaties under the Westphalian international system, and the ability to maintain militaries to protect that exact ability.

[@hispalismapping155]

@@ekszentrik Morocco totally breached the Westphalian sovereignty Here in Spain we had many Moorish incursions in Melilla and Ceuta, and that Morocco could do absolutely nothing doplimatically to control it, since the Kabyles had all the sovereignty

[@vafurtomli9166]

This is such an interesting view of the Civil War. Do you have a source list for this video I would love to read about this topic some more!

[@gi-hun9777]

It’s always an out of body experience to see my country mention, love you guys from Casablanca!🇲🇦

[@gi-hun9777]

@Lord x Oh Im sorry I’ll go and burn my passport Id and national card now, I didn’t realize mixed people couldn’t exist!

[@gi-hun9777]

@Lord x also why are you mad at me We both support israel

[@i76sin2]

@@gi-hun9777 he is a bit*h. He only has that energy In the virtual world guaranteed. I love seeing smaller counties get recognized and acknowledged. I'm American and tried of hearing about Americans I'm sure the rest of the planet is as well. Unless they look at it like some sort of reality show.

[@oliversherman2414]

Keep up the great stuff

[@In_Our_Timeline]

At the end of this Mizzian was appointed commander of Ceuta and promoted to lieutenant general in 1953 with command in the General Captaincy of the VIII Galician Military Region. Two years later, he became Captain General of the Canary Islands. In 1956

[@GamingD010]

Abd el-Krim is actually in my familty tree, my grandparents also fought in this war. He told me about the town im from. Annual. Where the glorius battle took place. And i took a visit to Silvestre's suposedly grave.

[@bernardppsh1457]

Can you do a video of the Spanish colonies in africa and its decolonization ? I think that it is an interesting topic like the 1956 Spanish moroccan war,the independence of guinea ecuatorial or the green march

[@kapojak5721]

Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, one of the Moroccan resistance fighters who pushed the nose of Spain and France on the ground 🇲🇦

[@Asiwann]

You mean Riffian, he Never saw himself as a Moroccan

[@kapojak5721]

@@Asiwann And did you know that he was living among the Moroccan sultans before the occupation? it's Moroccan man 🇲🇦

[@AdamAzzr]

@@Asiwann he learned how to write his name in Al qarawyine in fes. Yalah tcalma m3a krk

[@Ilyaselkandoussi]

@@Asiwann Did he tell you that?

[@moulayismail1546]

@@Asiwann Wtf is Riffian ? Someone from the country side ? Thats literally what Rif means " a countryside " thats not an identity nor a nice way to call someone . If you want to create an identity from dust believe me u have way much work to do . And first start with the name .

[@piloul3538]

great work! (also it's Ceuta, not Cueta)

[@unclerubo]

Nice video. Just one nitpick: It's Ceuta, not Cueta :)

[@Whiteen]

man north of Morocco is not Sahara or desert

[@ColonelFluffles]

I know!! It's so cringe they portray it as such

[@apolaf]

bro portrayed us like we are from zagora 🤣

[@zeldris478]

Classical European view of Arabs/Africa, even though Morocco is far from Middle eastern Arabs or African Sahara

[@franciscosuarez1660]

Great video! Just a quick correction: the Spanish enclave in North Africa is actually Ceuta, and it is pronounced Seuta :)

[@Ilyaselkandoussi]

Sebta*.

[@ColoringAHouse]

@@Ilyaselkandoussi Marruecos*.

[@CondeDeBarca]

As a Spaniard I’m gonna respectfully correct you, in Castilian it’s pronounced theuta, with a th sound

[@jonastg4908]

@@ColoringAHouse إسبانيا ، الأندلس 👌🏻🍆

[@ColoringAHouse]

@@jonastg4908 yes I am in fact a fan of arab calligraphy and the word Al Andalus in arabic, how did you know?

[@GordonJordanGJ4797]

What I like about the Spanish civil war Is the amount of factions that were in the civil war and every single one is interesting since every rebel faction and other factions are cool in my eyes

[@ghostsniperable353]

Wait until the second American civil war. Dozens of factions

[@Nacho2002b]

The uprising started in the Peninsula. With uprisings in Navarra, Galicia, Castilla and Andalusia.

[@lupen_rein]

Morocco is not the Arabic name, so please stop trying to pronounce Morocco in an Arabic way. The original name usually is المغرب , al-Maghrib, like we call the entire western North African region. It means "the West".

[@tylersmith3139]

How do Arabs distinguish between the Maghreb region(all of North Africa that is west of Egypt) and "al-Maghrib" as in Morocco. The reason why English speakers (and French speaking Moroccans) call it Morocco/Maroc is because of the important Berber trading town of Marrakesh.

[@Ilyaselkandoussi]

@@tylersmith3139 It was named Morocco because at the time, the Almoravid empire, which was a world power, was called the Sultanate of Marrakech. From which derives Marruecos, Morocco, Maroc, etc.

[@myztikdaboss4714]

morocco is the indigenous amazighi name of the nation

[@qwerty6928]

@@tylersmith3139 some times the country of Morocco is called al maghrib al aqsa which literally means the farthest west

[@D.Leo02]

Damn stupidity is every where, even here!!

[@Revitalization4241]

It was better if you painted the regulares only with a Mediterranean skin color

[@tylersmith3139]

Moroccans vary heavily in skin tone, as do Spaniards.

[@Revitalization4241]

@@tylersmith3139 Haratins & Imzilen didn't served in the Spanish regulars legions

[@ColonelFluffles]

@@tylersmith3139 dark skinned Moroccans are rare in the north.

[@gundamzing]

"La caja o la faja" seems to have had an evolutionary effect on the Spanish officer corps. The weak die, and the capable remain to become generals.

[@dreamcast3607]

Thanks for the video pretty much all history videos that mentioned Franco just start from his airlift into Mainland Spain

[@edwinlee6864]

Why do you show Moroccan troop with British Lee-Enfield, SMLE Mark III instead of Spanish Mausers, M93?

[@ColonelFluffles]

And why does he show them as dark brown/black.

[@rafaelmiranda5640]

Do a Video on The War of Farrapos of Brazil😃 pls

[@In_Our_Timeline]

Prior to the Spanish Civil War, Morocco served as a cradle for fascist ideology. Franco began his military career in Morocco, emerging from the Rif War as a hero. Franco expanded Los Legionarios and Los Regulares, promising higher salaries and assistance for the soldier’s families total 80,000 Moroccan soldiers fighting in peninsular Spain. These same men were instructed to terrorize villages upon arrival of the fascist forces. This was a deliberate decision by the fascist forces to relate the barbaric side of the war with the re-emergence of the mythical image of the “maligno moro” (dangerous Moor) of the re-conquest period of Spanish history.

[@javijovemorate3345]

Franco was not a fascist, he used that ideology to gain support in the international field when it was relevant, but had no problem diching it later on, its a big misconception about Franco himself, outside his catholicism and general conservativism, he didn't have a major political belief prior to his ascension as leader of the Nationals.

[@javijovemorate3345]

@The Philosoraptor 🇺🇦 that is not exactly true, as most of the carlist and falangist leadership (what remained of the falangists as most of its leadership got murdered the first months of the war due to finding themselves on republican controlled territory) heavily despised Franco and saw him as nothing more than an oportunist. While a lot of carlist and falangist soldiers ended up loving Franco it was mostly due to the fact that he cleverly took the momentum he gained with his first succesfull campaigns and promptly uniting the falange and the carlists into one while at the same time arresting or exiling its leaders. Franco's falange for instance is barely recognisable from the political propositions of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, its founder, but fears of breaking the nationalist front due to infights, much like was happening with the republicans and the war tiredness of the aftermath made most of the carlists/falangists to be contempt with Franco's regime.

[@javijovemorate3345]

@The Philosoraptor 🇺🇦 yeah, that was his big argument for uniting the whole nationalist front and this was obviously the correct decision to make in those circunstances but while he was doing this he was carefuly setting up the basis for his vision of Spain and ensuring he would not be removed.

[@javijovemorate3345]

@The Philosoraptor 🇺🇦 that was also a claver move on his part. Carlists and other monarchists wanted to inmediatly proceed to a monarchist restoration. To avoid this, he pitted the falangists (Who were staunchly antimonarchist) and later came finding a "Middle solution" which was his indefinite Regency.

[@javijovemorate3345]

@The Philosoraptor Tended more towards the main carlist claimant, Don Javier. During ww2 he joined the French resistance and got captured by the germans, and was sent to the concentration camp in Dachau, were he was thought dead due to his severe ilness contracted and was given a trepanation without any anaesthetics by a jewish doctor, he actually survived.

[@primarchstar2087]

Can't wait for the Morroco Soldiers vid then! :D

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel

[@Dextamartijn]

Always interesting videos and keep up the great research. Groetjes uit Alberta Canada 🇨🇦

[@abdelelman197]

Hoezo spreek jij Nederlands ?

[@Dextamartijn]

@@abdelelman197 Ik kom uit Nederland.

[@abdelelman197]

@@Dextamartijn oh sorry gast, ik las Canada dus dacht automatische dat je daarvan kwam. Dacht huh spreken mensen in Canada Nederlands maar I got you ! Greeting Moroccan 🤪

[@emirayub6418]

Good video! From Spanish Moroccan 😎 just side note you pronounced melila & Ceuta wrong it’s MeLilya & Ceu Ta or Sebta

[@VictorLdVS]

Ceuta y Melilla (Arriba España)

[@AdamAzzr]

@@VictorLdVS Gibraltar (Arriba Britania)

[@Ilyaselkandoussi]

@@VictorLdVS Sebta w Mlilia. W Al Andalus.

[@weatherloops]

@@AdamAzzr gilbraltar is called jabal tariq

[@VictorLdVS]

@@AdamAzzr Ceuta, Melilla, la Isla del Perejil, las islas Chafariñas, peñón de Vélez, Isla de Alborán, islas Alhucemas (Arriba España).

[@Niper777]

No mention of Millán Astray? He was the one that inspired they all and the supperior of Franco.

[@ayeshadequeiroz4857]

Can you do a video about Pedro Fernando de Queiros and the discovery of Australia? He invented two cartography instruments, what were they?

[@plutarch324]

All that aside, very cool video.

[@afrikasmith1049]

I had no idea there were death squads in the Spanish Civil War until now.

[@DevilishDropout]

One of the best examples of the Imperial violence of the periphery being brought home to fortify the imperial core.

[@NaoMeChates22222]

You wrote Cueta and run with it! xD

[@elhabchiali8841]

May great grandfather was a moorish Guard at the franco pales

[@GAndreC]

Sure la legion might have had plenty of Spaniards but there were italians englishmen and black Americans among others there too. And regardless of your view on Franco after the end of the civil war he was a remarkable officer and had an astounding record by the time la guera de el rif ended

[@plutarch324]

Hmmmm.....well a couple of things. There is an argument about the degree to which the Army of Africa was actually "Fascist" as a primary characteristic, rather than that being a domestic fig leaf it adopted. Franco, of course, being the best example of the kind of wishy washy relationship the Army had with Fascism as an ideology. Also José Antonio Primo de Rivera didn't have any military service to speak of, and was a political radical involved in Spanish politics. The Falange is a political force working in concert with the army, sure, but its complicated.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Framco’s Rubicon has got to be the straits of Gibraltar.

[@sheikhmufasafasagan1973]

Hey guy from dommy's comment section , how u doin ?

[@oliversherman2414]

I'm writing an alternate history book about this subject so this is very helpful, thanks 👍

[@thequraininstitute6618]

It is spelled the republic of the Reef ( or the republic of the Countryside )

[@ilyasbouriaz1767]

you did one mistake in your video. there is no dessert and no camels in the north. the Rif is a mountains range.

[@kuroazrem5376]

Your Spanish is really good I have to say.

[@raularmas7743]

Not Cueta, CEUTA. Great pronunciation tho, some mistakes but great vid

[@FortuneZer0]

No reference to José Millán-Astray? Is there hatred for cripples involved? Abelism?

[@Spotlightmoonlight]

6:43 why are you using music from the bronze age game from cool math????? 😂

[@mostlymessingabout]

Your pronunciación is pretty good for the Northerner 😅

[@kuroazrem5376]

It's Ceuta (Pronounced seuta), not Cueta.

[@jonathancampbell5231]

Franco was in command of crushing the Asturian uprising but his actual role in events is ambiguous as he was appointed after fighting had broken out. The one who crushed the strikers was General Eduardo López Ochoa, possibly at least in part on his own initiative, which was a shock to many as he had hitherto been considered a Leftist. Ochoa ended up having both the Left and the Right hating him- the Left called him "The Butcher of Asturias" because of the violence of his troops in ending the strike, but he had in fact tried to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the strikers beforehand and went on to punish and even execute many of his troops for the excessive violence so the Right didn't regard him as trustworthy either. Also, the strike was basically an attempt at a full-scale revolution, or at least many strikers saw it that way, and extremists amongst the strikers committed several dozen summary executions as well as numerous acts of arson, so it wasn't a straightforward black-and-white affair.

[@realhawaii5o]

To this day, I don't know why you always say Cueta rather than Ceuta.

[@Daniel-is9sh]

This another excellent video but I do have one or two points. Are you able to provide a source for the claim the Rif War was personally financed by the King? Everything I've come across previously seems to imply it was a government effort. Secondly I'd disagree with the point about Falangism being colonialism come home to roost. As far as I'm aware José Antonio Primo de Rivera wasn't a soldier, let alone an Africanista. So I don't really see how that issue to the idea can be navigated around. But that's just me nit picking and using the skills the past three years of a history degree has taught me lol. You've been a big help through the degree with your content, so thank you mate.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Bruh he was referring to Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquess of Estella not José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquess of Estella (The former's son.). The King had great interest in the War and wanted it to be won and did a lot to press that agenda on even as it was blowing up at home and there were moments when he was callous towards his soldiers. Ironically Miguel actually disagreed with the King initially.

[@AyubuKK]

Awesome.

[@alansmithee8831]

Hello Hilbert. Growing up in the UK my parents spoke of the arrival of refugee children as the start of the build up to their war experience, that formed a talking point for that generation. Having gone to spend time in Valencia province, with "As I Walked out one Midsummer Morning" for reference, I soon learned that "Don't mention the war" was more than just a famous phrase from a sit com. P.S. Is your artwork on "the list" yet? Funny that instead of trying to continue the efforts to restore Christianity by crossing to Africa that the Spanish set off to another continent thousands of miles across the sea, back in 1492.

[@grantottero4980]

OMG number two!! The airlift (the first one in history) was crucial for trasporting the Moroccan army to peninsular Spain (since the nationalist didn't manage to take immediate control of Spanish Navy), but it was NOT done by the German air force, NOR by the German "and" the Italian one. German "Legión Condor" came many months after that... The airlift was done ONLY by the Italian air force alone (in an undercover operation decided by Mussolini and Italian fascist government, with no official insignia on the aircraft).

[@plutarch324]

Also, the Nationalists did not start the Spanish Civil War. The Republicans did when they refused to respect the democratic election of CEDA and launched wave after wave of violence and expropriation of people's property. If you lived in a country where elections were ignored, or responded to with violence in the streets until the government calls for a new election, you'd hope the army would help return order as well.

[@bert8373]

The head of CEDA was murdered by Republican Assault Guards as well

[@davidchunkyonion]

Excellent

[@williamwolf2844]

This is quite interesting. However, it is Ceuta, not Cueta.

[@omar.thegamer2016]

The riffians where going in the regulars army, for revenge now the had the oppertunity to fight on there land, and there women and childeren die, war is creu, the leaders even worse.

[@sebastianprimomija8375]

7:30 Shame on you Peninsulars shame. You took this from them.

[@goodtalk844]

Spain got its ass kicked real bad in 1921 by Abdel Krim elkhattabi. They had to call on France for help in order to win, otherwise, they would have been expelled by the Moroccan, and Rifian warriors. What Spain and France did to win was truly brutal and heinous. *btw you forgot to mention their use of chemical weapons in order to subdue the Rifian troops. To this day, people still suffer from the effects of the use of those weapons. The Riff mountainous region has the highest cancer rates in Morocco, as well as birth deformities, whereas large areas of land remain polluted. These kind of videos seems to always avoid talking about the crimes of these colonial powers and only reminisce on why they lost their wealth and control. *Your negative description of the Moroccan soldiers, who were in a lot of cases forced to fight with the Spaniards, is completely exaggerated.

[@immuslimisupportqatar7591]

awdi rif men jiha o ljanoub d lmagrib men jiha . ma3amrani an sme7 l franca o sbania dakchi li daro

[@immuslimisupportqatar7591]

@@nexting3d MaMA franca help rifan kicked our ass

[@rebloyola5048]

That's Ceuta Dear, not whatever else

[@petiteexplication6249]

Its kind of funny how Morocco caused the birth and downfall of both the spanish and portugal empire

[@Ilyaselkandoussi]

They should thank Morocco. Instead, they just hate on it.

[@Asiwann]

First of all, it where not Moroccans Who ressisted the Spanish colonialists, it where the Riffians Berbers and Jballa tribes, Abdelkrim Never saw himself as a Moroccan, he even declared the Rif republic etcetera..

[@Revitalization4241]

Jbala tribes are majoirity Berber. Only a minority are of Arab or Andalusian origin like the Beni Arus and Tetouanis. Source: Notes sur Tribus du Maroc Tribal sociaty of rural Morocco Tribes of the Rif

[@mariajason3547]

Where was Moroccan Royal Family at this time?

[@myztikdaboss4714]

sitting on their backs acting as puppets to france

[@t.wcharles2171]

@@myztikdaboss4714 granted the Alouites couldn't really do much as the real power in Morocco was the protectorate office in Paris

[@asmaettazi2601]

It s not Morroco it s RIF😢

[@achraf8300]

Rif is literally a Moroccan region 😂

[@asmaettazi2601]

@@achraf8300 you literally don’t now

[@ajari4626]

​@@achraf8300there are berber and riffian not at all arabic.

[@IbrahimStanikzai]

Morrocans should not serve in that war if you ask me .Let Spainish fight their own war and i mean it was perfect moment for morrocans to rebelled against spain but instead of that they serve in Spainish army i mean it was shameful act and many heroes of morroco were humiliated by this act.

[@Dylan-qh9yu]

So did Morocco lose in 1926

[@ryanelliott71698]

I don’t want to be that guy, but masterworks isn’t really as he says. It’s not a scam but it is overhyped

[@GarkKahn]

3:07 It's Ceuta

[@HR4_]

Greetings from 🇲🇦

[@albertomunoyerro5562]

Is Ceuta not cueta

[@almazu2770]

Ceuta?

[@historyfactsesp9929]

brother just confunded ceuta with cuetara 💀

[@tximino_baztanga]

confunded 😎

[@starman1144]

Based Franco! 🇪🇸

[@commieking1443]

and that's why the most powerfull general in HOI4 for the spanish army was Mohamed Ameziane from Los Regulares