150 CARLOS GONZÁLEZ ROSADO
del Grupo de Regulares de Melilla, lo que nos hará reflexionar si términos
como desertores o traidores, fueron y son los más adecuados para referirse a
unos soldados, para los que aun siendo su cabila su única patria, ahorraron a
España con su empleo la vida de miles de sus hijos.
PALABRAS CLAVE: Grupo, Regulares, Tabor, Indígena, Melilla,
Annual, Campañas de Marruecos, Harcas, Gums, Idalas, Mía, Policía Indígena,
cabila.
ABSTRACT
One of the consequences of the implantation of the Spanish Protectorate
in Morocco at the beginning of the 20th century was the beginning
of a series of military campaigns, popularly known as the Moroccan War,
within which Spain wove a whole conglomerate of indigenous units, whose
number it went from a thousand, during the Melilla Campaign of 1909, to
more than forty thousand, at the end of the 1920s. All of them first-line units
that, bearing the main weight of the operations, saved the employment of
the spanish soldier, whose the loss in combat did so much damage to the
governments, although to the detriment of the operation of the peninsular
units, as was shown in Annual, in July 1921, where the burden of operations
fell on the Policía Indígena and the Grupo de Fuerzas Regulares Indígenas
de Melilla n.º 2. This article aims, therefore, to show the reasons that led
Spain to organize its indigenous units and their evolution until the end of
the 1920s, and above all, publicize the idiosyncrasy of the indigenous soldier
and his performance around Annual through the Grupo de Regulares de
Melilla, which will make us reflect on whether terms such as deserters or
traitors were and are the most appropriate to refer to soldiers, for those who,
even though their kabyle was their only homeland, saved Spain with their
employment the lives of thousands of their children.
KEY WORDS: Group, Regular, Tabor, Indigenous, Melilla, Annual,
Morocco Campaigns, Harcas, Gums, Idalas, Mía, Indigenous Police, Kabyle.
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Revista de Historia Militar, I extraordinario de 2021, pp. 150-212. ISSN: 0482-5748