Battle of Sidi Bou Othman
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The Battle of Sidi Bou Othman was an important battle fought at Sidi Bou Othman, some 40 kilometers north of Marrakesh, during the French conquest of Morocco. It saw the victory of a French column und
Charles Mangin enters Marrakesh, 9 September 1912.
Call to arms by al-Hiba's partisans, as illustrated by the French peridiocal Le Petit Journal, 1 September 1912
Colonel Charles Mangin who led the French forces in the Battle of Sidi Bou Othman
A 7.5 cm Gebirgskanone L/13 C/80, captured in Morocco at the Musée de La Marine Nationale de Toulon.
Ahmed al-Hiba
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Mawlay Ahmed Haybat Allah ibn Ma al-Aynayn, was a leader of an armed resistance to the French colonial power in Morocco, and was the Blue Sultan of Morocco.
Battle of Sidi Bou Othman
…during the French conquest of Morocco. It saw the victory of a French column under Colonel Charles Mangin over the forces of the south Moroccan leader Ahmed al-Hiba in September 1912. As a result of the victory, the French captured the city of Marrakesh and annexed southern Morocco into the French protectorate of…
A letter by Ahmed al-Hiba bin Ma' al-Ainayn to the Pasha of Salé at-Tayib as-Sabīhī written in musnid Maghrebi script dated 8 Muharram, 1329 (8 January 1911).