All military and civilian personnel were then evacuated overland to Sidi Ifni. Spanish kept control of Western Sahara until the 1975 Green March prompted a withdrawal. //

It had a total area of 1,502 km², and a population of 51,517 in 1964.

He can butcher the best of Europe during the Civil War but can't repulse barbarians in West Sahara?

Ben Hammu Two more Legionary battalions reached Spanish Sahara before the opening of hostilities. Leaving Sidi Ifni on 24 November aboard several old trucks, a platoon of the Spanish Legion paratroop battalion under Captain Ortiz de Zárate made slow progress through difficult terrain. Grupo de Tiradores de Ifni nº 2 formed. The company had suffered two dead and fourteen wounded. 352 transports (Spanish-built versions of the Junkers Ju-523M)dropped a force of 75 paratroopers into the outpost. On December 2, a column of infantry, among them the erstwhile defenders of Telata, broke through the Moroccan lines and drove the enemy off. Airforce .

The Ifni War sometimes called the Forgotten War in Spain (la Guerra Olvidada), was a series of armed incursions into Spanish West Africa by Moroccan insurgents and indigenous Sahrawi rebels that began in October 1957 and culminated with the abortive siege of Sidi Ifni. Beaten back and forced into retreat by the Spaniards, the army turned its efforts to the southeast. require(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.start({"baseUrl":"mc.us9.list-manage.com","uuid":"2eca8fb34c07b7c55f250b0c0","lid":"9778738cd5"}) }) Belligerents google_ad_client: "ca-pub-4361402895626530",

Supplied from the sea by the Spanish Navy and protected by kilometres of trenches and forward outposts, Sidi Ifni, boasting 7,500 defenders by 9 December, proved impregnable. An officer of the Spanish army revisits the battleground . At Tiluin, 60 Tiradores de Ifni (indigenous infantry with Spanish officers and specialist personnel), struggled to stave off a force of hundreds of Moroccans. [CDATA[// >