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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.
Steven Thomas, 1920–1927 Rif War / Second Moroccan War; The Rif War 1893 (sic) on OnWar.com. Chemical Weapons: Tenth Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the CWC 7–11 November 2005, The Hague, The Netherlands; Rif war; David Montgomery Hart, The Aith Waryaghar of the Moroccan Rif : an ethnography and history. Published for the ...
A military museum or war museum is an institution dedicated to the preservation and education of the significance of wars, conflicts, and military actions. These museums serve as repositories of artifacts (not least weapons), documents, photographs, and other memorabilia related to the military and war.
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The massacre of Monte Arruit took place on 9 August 1921 in Al Aaroui during the Rif War, when, after the July 1921 Battle of Annual, Riffian forces slaughtered most of the Spanish soldiers who had surrendered on that day.
History of the Second World War United Kingdom Military Series. Vol. IV. Uckfield, UK: Naval & Military Press. ISBN 1-84574-068-8. Summerfield, Stephen (2014). Coote-Manningham's Shorncliffe lecture of 1803 and the origins of the 95th Rifles (PDF). Shorncliffe Trust. ISBN 978-1907417573. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 September 2016.
During the Third Rif War in Spanish Morocco between 1921 and 1927, the Spanish Army of Africa deployed chemical weapons in an attempt to put down the Berber rebellion against colonial rule in the region of the Rif led by the guerrilla Abd el-Krim. [1]
Annual or Anoual (Berber language: Anwal) is a small town [citation needed] in northeastern Morocco [1] about 60 km west of Nador.There, during the Rif War or War of Melilla, on July 22, 1921, the Spanish army suffered a grave military defeat against the Rifian Berber army, known as the Battle of Annual.