Battle of Annual
1921 Rifian victory against Spain during the Rif War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Battle of Annual was fought on 22 July 1921 at Annual, in northeastern Morocco, between the Spanish Army and Rifian Berbers during the Rif War. The Spanish suffered a major military defeat, which is almost always referred to by the Spanish as the Disaster of Annual (Spanish: Desastre de Annual) which is widely considered to be the worst defeat suffered by the modern Spanish Army.[7]
Battle of Annual | |||||||
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Part of the Rif War | |||||||
Carga del rio Igan: charge by the Cazadores de Alcántara cavalry regiment at the Igan River, Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Riffian tribes | Spain | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Abd el-Krim | Manuel Silvestre † | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
3,000[1] | 20,000–23,000[2][3] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
800 killed and wounded[4] | 13,192 killed[5][6] |
It resulted in major political crises, the fall of several governments, a military dictatorship led by Miguel Primo de Rivera, the abdication of King Alfonso XIII and a complete reassessment of the Spanish colonial policy toward the Rif as the entire Spanish colonial enterprise was at one point threatened.