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The Agadir Crisis, Agadir Incident, or Second Moroccan Crisis was a brief crisis sparked by the deployment of a substantial force of French troops in the interior of Morocco in July 1911 and the deployment of the German gunboat SMS Panther to Agadir, a Moroccan Atlantic port. [1]
Throughout the Agadir Crisis Wilson was keen to pass on the latest intelligence to Churchill. Churchill and Grey came to Wilson's house (4 September) to discuss the situation until after midnight. Wilson (18 September) recorded four separate reports from spies of German troops massing opposite the Belgian frontier.
During the Agadir Crisis in 1911 Dubail was Chief of Staff of the Army, [2] reporting to the new War Minister, Adolphe Messimy. Messimy and Dubail tried to have the Army adopt 105mm heavy guns, but French generals saw them as a drag on the offensive (preferring to use the lighter and more mobile " Soixante-Quinze " gun) and better used as a ...
1 July – The Agadir Crisis is triggered when Germany's Ambassador to France, Wilhelm von Schoen, delivers a diplomatic note to France's Foreign Minister Justin de Selves, announcing that Germany has sent the gunboat SMS Panther and troops, to occupy Agadir, at that time a part of the protectorate of French Morocco.
The presence of the gunboat in Morocco, which was then nominally independent but the subject of Spanish and French attempts to colonize the country, sparked the Agadir Crisis and triggered a major war scare in Europe. [20] Panther spent most of July in the port, leaving only once to replenish coal at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The Agadir Crisis (University of North Carolina Press, 1940). Clark, Christopher. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (2012) pp 204–13. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Band VI, Band 91 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN 0435-2408; Ralf Forsbach, Alfred von Kiderlen-Wächter (1852–1912).
The Morocco commemorative medal (1909) was a 30mm in diameter circular silver medal. The obverse bore the relief image of the effigy of the "warrior republic" in the form of the left profile of a helmeted woman's bust, the helmet being adorned by a crown of oak leaves.
The Agadir Crisis ended with the signing of Franco-German peace treaty at Berlin between German Foreign Minister Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter and France's Ambassador to Germany, Jules Cambon, ending Germany's threat to go to war over Morocco. [18]