Battle of Abarrán

Silvestre advanced to Abarrán. There he established a sandbag outpost with walls just 3 feet high.^[4] Silvestre left 250 Spanish troops and some native police at the post and left.^[5] An unexpected event happened on June 1 afternoon. Once the Spanish had left, the native police mutinied and began killing the officers and aided the Temsamane in attacking the garrison.^[6][7][8] The Spanish heard gunshots but didn't return. The post was fired from a hill and assaulted from another side.^[9] In the following massacre, 179 Spanish were killed, including the commander, Captain Salafranca, and the rest escaped.^[10][11] Following this, the Riffians captured four Krupp guns and 200 rifles.^[12]

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