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The Rif War (Tarifit: ⴰⵎⴻⵏⵖⵉ ⵏ ⴰⵔⵉⴼ, romanized: Amenɣi n Arif, Arabic: حرب الريف, romanized: ḥarb ar-rīf, Spanish: Guerra del Rif) was an armed conflict fought from 1921 to 1926 between Spain (joined by France in 1924) and the Berber (Amazigh) tribes of the mountainous Rif region of northern Morocco.
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.
During the Rif war, the Spanish general, Manuel Fernández Silvestre, was operating on the eastern zone of the Spanish colony in Rif. The region was dominated by the Rif mountains and their tribes, proving a serious obstacle to Silvestre's forces. On January 21, 1921, the Spanish took Annual as their base.
In the Rif War, the poorly commanded and overextended Spanish Army was defeated by the Republic of the Rif under the leadership of the Abd el-Krim brothers, who crushed a Spanish offensive on 24 July 1921, at Annual.
The Republic was dissolved by Spanish and French occupation forces on 27 May 1926, but many Rif guerrillas continued to fight until 1927. [18] Abd-el-Krim boarding a Fez-Tangier train in 1926 on his way to exile in the Indian Ocean island of Réunion. In April 1925, Abd el-Krim proclaimed the independent Republic in the Rif region of Spanish ...
7 Rif War. 8 First World War. 9 Sino-French War. 10 Franco-Prussian War. 11 Mexican Campaign. 12 Italian Campaign (1859) 13 Crimean War. 14 Second Deployment to Algeria.
Rif War Rif Republic Spain: Disestablishment of the Rif Republic; consolidation of Spanish rule in Rif: 1921 February Uprising: Mountainous Armenia: Soviet Russia: Defeat of Armenian insurgents 1921 Mongolian Revolution of 1921: Mongolia China: Restoration of Outer Mongolian independence from Chinese occupation; creation of the Mongolian People ...
The Spanish-Moroccan conflicts continued in the 20th century, under the leadership of Abd el-Krim, the Berber guerrilla leader who proclaimed the Republic of the Rif in 1921. [9] The Riffian Berbers won several victories over the Spanish in the Rif War in the 1920s before they were eventually defeated; the war saw extensive use of chemical ...