Agadir crisis

From: A Dictionary of British History | Date: 2004| Author: JOHN CANNON | Copyright information

Agadir crisis, 1911. A Franco-German colonial crisis triggered by a German gunboat in a Moroccan port July 1911) led ministers to resolve an int...

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