Battle of Annual

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	20,000–23,000
Casualties and losses
800 killed and wounded	13,192 killed

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.

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.

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