How to Pronounce Mohamed Meziane
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Feb 01, 1897 Beni Ansar / Aït Nsar, Morocco Died on 01 May 1975 (aged 78)
Moroccan general
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About Mohamed Meziane
- Mohammed ben Mizzian (1 February 1897 – 1 May 1975) was a Moroccan general from Beni Ensar.
- He was one of the sons of local Moroccan leader Mohammed Ameziane, also known in Spanish as El Mizzian, and was the only Moroccan to ever become a general in Spain.During the Spanish Civil War he commanded a section of the Regulares Indígenas troops, who formed the shock troops of the Nationalist Army.
- Their fierceness in combat made them highly feared among Spanish Republican Army ranks.
- After holding many high military posts in Francoist Spain Mizzian reached the rank of Lieutenant General of the Spanish Army. Summoned by King Mohammed V, in 1957 he moved to Morocco following the independence of the country.
- In 1970, he was made a Field marshal and is the only person to have ever held that title in the Moroccan Army.
