Agadir Incident

Agadir Incident, the most conspicuous incident in the international crisis of 1911. Tension over French troop movements in Morocco, which represented a possible threat to German interests there, led the German government to make a demonstration of force by sending to Agadir the small gunboat S. M. S. Panther. The crisis was peacefully resolved by slight French concessions in Central Africa, but a consequence of the episode was a closer Anglo-French understanding. The incident is sometimes termed ‘der Panthersprung’.