Bombardment of Casablanca
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title:
Bombardment of Casablanca
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The Bombardment of Casablanca was a French naval attack taking place from August 5 to 7 in 1907 that destroyed the Moroccan city of Casablanca. France used mainly artillery fire from armored cruisers to bomb the city and targets in the surrounding area, which caused an estimated 1,500 to 7,000 Moroccan deaths. The bombardment of Casablanca opened a western front to the French conquest of Morocco after Hubert Lyautey's occupation of Oujda in the east earlier that year. The bombardment came after
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1907 French naval attack
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Casablanca
date created:
2018-12-11T16:43:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T06:00:46Z
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