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Germany dispatches the gunboat SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
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SMS Panther was one of six Iltis-class gunboats built for the German Kaiserliche Marine in the late 1890s and early 1900s. The ships were built to modernize the German gunboat force that was used to patrol the German colonial empire. They were ordered in three groups of two…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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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.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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