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How many Spanish troops were killed at the Battle of Annual?

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Spanish soldiers operate artillery cannons in a desert landscape near Melilla, with smoke billowing as a cannon fires during a 1930s battle. — Rif War Spanish artillery firing outside Melilla during the Rif War.

At the Battle of Annual, which took place on July 22, 1921, between 8,000 and 10,000 Spanish troops were killed. This defeat, inflicted by the forces of Abd el-Krim, resulted in the loss of all territory in the eastern part of the protectorate that Spain had occupied since 1909.1