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The Magistrate

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2. Thanks For Putting This Up, Ma'am
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 05:08 PM
Jul 2021

Not much mention of Annual and Abd 'el Krim's rebellion in the Riff to be seen nowadays. It's worth looking into, it was ended by one of the few fellows whose claim to be a benevolent dictator, Gen. Primo de la Rivera, is not a complete crock, and went a good ways towards ending the monarchy and ushering in the Republic.

I express no opinion on the statuary, but would offer this addition to the sheer weirdness of the unit. Their most popular song was 'The Betrothed of Death', with verses describing how, unknown to one another, a father and son both served in the legion, and were found dead on the battlefield each with a picture of the same woman in his pocket, who it should be needless to say was not a wife and mother.

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