Back Batalla d'Annual AN معركة أنوال Arabic معركة أنوال ARY Desastre d'Annual AST Emgann Annual Breton Batalla d'Annual Catalan Schlacht von Annual German Batalo de Annual Esperanto Desastre de Annual Spanish Annualgo gudua Basque
| 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] | ||||||||
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.
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- ^ Altisent, Martha Eulali. A Companion to the Twentieth-Century Spanish Novel, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008, ISBN 1855661748, p. 259.
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