1921 Rifian victory against Spain during the Rif War
Battle of Annual
Part of the Rif War
Carga del rio Igan: charge by the Cazadores de Alcántara cavalry regiment at the Igan River, Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau
Date
22 July – 9 August 1921
Location
Annual, Morocco
Result
Rifian victory
Massacre of Monte Arruit
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]
v
t
e
Rif War
Larache
Alcazarquivir
1st Xauen
El Biutz
Alfrau
Sidi Dris [es]
Abarrán [es]
Igueriben [fr]
Annual
Dar Drius
Monte Arruit
Nador
Zeluán
Melilla
Sanjurjo's counter-offensive
Estella line
2nd Xauen [fr]
Uarga [es]
Fez
Alhucemas
Capaz
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]
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.
^Woolman 1968, p. 97.
^Gill, M. S. Immortal Heroes Of The World, Sarup & Sons, 2005, ISBN 8176255904, p. 242.
^Brockdorff, Werner. Geheimkommandos des Zweiten Weltkrieges, Verlag Welsermühl, 1967, p. 168.
^Cite error: The named reference ebert was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Long, David E.; Bernard Reich (2002). The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa. p. 393.
^Altisent, Martha Eulali. A Companion to the Twentieth-Century Spanish Novel, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008, ISBN 1855661748, p. 259.
^Cite error: The named reference Olmo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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