Battle of Tres Forcas
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The Battle of Tres Forcas was a battle on 7 August 1856 between boat crews from the Prussian Navy corvette SMS Danzig and the Moroccans. It occurred at Cape Tres Forcas in Morocco, and was one of the
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Cape Three Forks
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Cape Three Forks, Cape des Trois Fourches, or Cape Tres Forcas is a headland on the Mediterranean coast of Nador Province in northeastern Morocco and the Spanish exclave of Melilla.
Battle of Tres Forcas
…boat crews from the Prussian Navy corvette SMS Danzig (then on a foreign cruise, commanded by Heinrich Adalbert) and the Moroccans. It occurred at Cape Tres Forcas in Morocco, and was one of the first examples of Prussian or German gunboat diplomacy. The Treaty of Paris of 1856 had decided that a Prussian warship…
View over Cape Three Forks
Cape Three Forks Lighthouse.