Agadir Incident

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Agadir Incident

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Also known as: “Panther” Incident, Second Moroccan Crisis

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Category: History & Society

Date:: July 1, 1911

Location:: Agadir; Morocco

Participants:: France; Germany

Key People:: Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg; Joseph Caillaux; Jules Cambon; Sir Edward Grey, 3rd Baronet; Alfred von Kiderlen-Wächter

Agadir Incident, event involving a German attempt to challenge French rights in Morocco by sending the gunboat Panther to Agadir in July 1911. The action incited the Second Moroccan Crisis (see Moroccan crises).