First Melillan campaign

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Melilla War
Part of the Spanish-Moroccan conflicts and Scramble for Africa
War in Morocco, Death of the Spanish General Margallo, from Le Petit Journal, 13 November 1893.
Date 9 November (de facto 3 October) 1893 – 25 April 1894 Location Rif, northern Morocco, near Melilla Result Spanish victory Treaty of Fez: Morocco pays war reparations of 20 million pesetas Pledges to pacify northern provinces Territorial changes The Melilla hinterlands are ceded to Spain
Belligerents
Spain	Morocco Riffian tribes
Commanders and leaders
Juan Margallo † Martínez-Campos	Hassan I Baja al-Arbi
Strength
25,000 regulars and militia	40,000 irregulars

The First Melillan Campaign, also called the Melilla War or the Margallo War (after Juan García y Margallo, the Spanish governor of Melilla whose defeat and death infuriated the Spanish public) in Spain, was a conflict between Spain and 39 of the Rif tribes of northern Morocco, and later the Sultan of Morocco, that began in October 1893, was openly declared November 9, 1893, and was resolved by the Treaty of Fez in 1894.