Battle of Annual (1921) معركة أنوال
The Battle of Annual was fought on July 22, 1921, at Annual in the Moroccan territory occupied by the Kingdom of Spain, between the Spanish Christian Army of Africa led by the spanish general Manuel Fernández y Silvestre, the Captain general and the baron of Casa Davalillo Felipe Navarro y Ceballos-Escalera, and the colonel Gabriel Morales y Mendigutia, and Berber Muslim combatants of the Rif region during the Rif War led by the Riffian political and military leader Muhammad Ibn 'Abd El-Karim El-Khattabi. The Spanish suffered a major military defeat, almost always referred to by the Spanish as the Disaster of Annual, which led to major political crises and a redefinition of Spanish colonial policy toward the Rif.
The losses of the Spanish army amounted to 10,265 dead, thousands wounded, and nearly 700 prisoners.
