Tafilalt expedition

Tafilalt expedition (1893)
Map of Morocco (1895).
Date 29 June – 28 December 1893 Location Tafilalt Result Moroccan victory Reinforcement of Moroccan authority over trans-Saharan trade routes and the Saharan regions.[1][2][3]
Belligerents
Morocco	Aït Atta Aït Khabbash 'Alawi shurfa
Commanders and leaders
Moulay Hassan Moulay Mohammed

The Tafilalt expedition was a large military expedition conducted by Sultan Moulay Hassan of Morocco in the region of Tafilalt in 1893 in the face of French Algerian expansionism. Moulay Hassan revitalized relations between the makhzan and the tribes and villages of the eastern and Saharan frontier lands.^[1] The expedition to the Tafilalt in 1893 was sent because the sultan feared that disorder there would provide an excuse for French intervention. An army of 15-30,000 marched in a loop from Fez to Marrakesh via the Tafilalt oases in company of the Emir Moulay Mohammed bin Hassan [ar].^[4] Little fighting took place, but it was greeted with loyal submissions and the payment of taxes, and so buttressed the sultan’s claims to sovereignty.^[5]