Battle of Annual 1921
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Date | 22 July 1921 – 9 August 1921 | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1921 | Wikidata P580 (start time) |
| Era | Interwar (1919–1938) | derived from year |
| Location | Morocco | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Africa | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | Rif War | Wikidata P361 |
| Participants | Riffian people, Spain under the Restoration | Wikidata P710 |
| Coordinates | 35.1200, -3.5833 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The Battle of Annual was fought on 22 July 1921 at Annual, in northeastern Morocco, between the Spanish Army and Riffian 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 ever 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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