The short French occupation and conquest of Morocco

Arnold Buckley
   The military conquest by France of Morocco is a text book of how this nation conquered a colonial empire and Morocco was the last of their foreign adventures. Author Douglass Porch shows how through intrigue and force of arms France added to its colonial legacy on of the last independent African nations right up to the eve of World War I and the role morocco played in causing more international tensions in Europe. Morocco was one of the most primitive backwater backward places stuck in medieval time and the French were determined to bring these lands of Allah into modernity. Mr. Porch's book called simply "Conquest Of Morocco" looks at the ventures of General Hubert Lyautey as he slowly made his way from Algeria into the hinterlands of the Barbary hinterlands. Morocco was nominally run by a Sultan and was one of the areas not shaded in yellow, orange, or red on a map of various European powers. it was preciously because of this as to why Morocco suddenly became a target of European interest in 1903 and why the French eagerly rushed into these areas to lay claim from the West.

the writer porch is an expert of French fighting tactics and motives writing several books explaining how powerful the French army and diplomacy played in North Africa, They needed as much as they could trying to sub-due the ands of the Sahara and the various tribes outside the historical morocco city of FEZ, The author details the savage warfare between those tribes resisting French occupation and the French and their multi-cultural forces. The book brilliantly details the two sieges of Fez and the excellent defensive measures and use f firepower the French mobilized to meet a larger force fighting Muslim radicals. The story of the Casablanca riots as locals attacked and killed workers of  light railway in 1907 and how the French devastated Casablanca and used it ass a pretext for further colonial expansion. This was basically a French crusade into Morocco and the expansion was only halted by the outbreak of world War I although the change and business migration into cities such as Casablanca would continue by Europeans opening up a whole new world of modernity that Muslims are still fighting and trying to resist today with the occasional and futile  suicide bombing in Morocco today.