How 3,000 Rif Warriors DESTROYED 20,000 Spaniards | Humiliating Colonial Rout

Описание: The Battle of Annual (July 1921) during the Rif War stands as one of the most humiliating defeats in colonial history. The vastly superior Spanish Army in Spanish Morocco was utterly routed by a smaller, but highly motivated and tactically brilliant force of Rif Berber warriors led by Abd el-Krim.

This video reconstructs the Annual Disaster:

The Ambush: The 3,000 Rif warriors capitalized on Spanish overconfidence and poor logistics, quickly overrunning a series of Spanish posts and triggering a mass panic.

The Toll: An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 Spanish soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured in just a few days—a military calamity that plunged Spain into a profound political crisis and accelerated the collapse of Spanish rule in the Eastern Rif.

📌 In this video, you will learn:
• The strategic incompetence of the Spanish High Command (General Silvestre).
• Abd el-Krim's brilliant guerrilla tactics and the discipline of the Rif warriors.
• How the Spanish retreat turned into one of the bloodiest colonial massacres in history.
• The political fallout of the defeat at Annual in Spain (the 1921 Crisis).
• The role of this victory in the foundation of the short-lived Rif Republic.
📚 Based on Spanish military archives (the Expediente Picasso), records of the Rif Republic, and historical analyses of the Rif War.