People laugh at Italy for losing to the Ethiopians, however, the Ethiopians were well armed and trained by the Russians and had the support of the Europeans. Spain has no excuses for Annual. >Losing to outnumbered tribesmen with no knowledge of modern warfare >Commander ends up killing himself >Pushed Spain to a civil war
According to some witnesses, Silvestre, upon seeing the disaster, went into his tent and committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Whether dead by his own hand or like most of his staff killed in the turmoil of the retreat, the only remnant of Silvestre appears to have been his scarlet and gold general's sash. Captain Fortea, one of the few Spanish prisoners taken at Annual, reported that Abd el-Krim wore the sash during the pursuit. Abd el-Krim himself told the writer J. Roger-Mathieu that this and other insignia had been brought to him by one of his men.
A total of 15,000 Spanish soldiers fell in the days from July 22 to August 9; most died during the Battle of Annual (known as the Disaster of Annual to Spanish historians). Krim followed up his victory at Annual by laying siege to all of the blocaos in the Riff mountains, none of which had much food or water stored, and all of which he took. After the Annual rout, Spanish morale collapsed and there was very little attempt at organized resistance, with the commanders of every blocao making no effort at any organized retreat. On that final day, Silvestre's deputy, General Felipe Navarro y Ceballos-Escalera, surrendered with his men at the sprawling fort of Mount Arruit.
Massive cope. It's alright, happens to the best of us.
Daniel Rodriguez
cope
Ayden Sanders
Holy shit no wonder this battle caused a civil war if I had that outcome happen to me Victoria 2 I would be throwing my PC off the balcony in rage
Carson Rivera
Because they lost the battle because one incompetent leader and then came back and rekt the whole Rif? Meanwhile Italy never took Ethiopia.
Benjamin Price
Imagine being a slightly industrialized European country losing to illiterate nafri camelfuckers. How is that even possible?
Levi Baker
>slightly industrialized European country We weren't. Outside of Barcelona and Madrid, we were a medieval country, we still had feudal lords until 1931.
bestiality is fun Ahmed. There's nothing to be ashamed of it
Thomas White
It literally happened a countless times in military history
>Army goes into deep enemy territory >The commander is inexperienced and or retarded >Commander panics and gives up safe position >Imagines he will do a fighting retreat >Retreat turns into a rout >His men get to be massacred
Julian Morgan
Why do Euros even underestimate MENA? They've been on decline for the last 300 years but they ruled over Euro lands for like 700.
>"Invincible Armada" >Destroyed by English fishing boats
Anthony Price
>slightly not even close, we were literally 3 world country
Brandon Johnson
Slav(e)nigger why are you wasting your time on this? Shouldn’t you be checking on your sister going to dubai to whore herself like the dirty Slav(e) she is? From a civilization point view, Slav(e) are on the same level as joggers if not bellow. While our ancestors were building Pyramids and Ziggurats in 2000 bc, your kind was still living in wood huts till the 13th century. You have no architecture and no history. The name of your lowly race was literally given to the lowest place in society.
>Wasting your time with a Slav(e) subhuman Hitler(pbuh) should've genocided them along with with the Jews.
>Be retarded general >Be personal friends with King so you have a massive ego >Be told to stay on a point, wait for reinforcements and then march towards enemy land >Nah, fuck that bro, look at me conquering this all by myself and my big dick >Go into deep territory, a mountainous region >Get ambushed because no one is watching your back >Your men get massacred >An hero out of shame It happened a bunch of other times throughout history.
Leo Cooper
>Destroyed by English fishing boats no
Juan Roberts
>3000 vs 20 000 >the 3000 bedouins won wtf spain i thought you wuz reconquista kangz
Meanwhile French against Berbers youtube.com/watch?v=UDQtYtrVqLg That's the difference between a white man and a moorish rapebaby.
Nathaniel Reed
are you retarded?
Andrew Ortiz
Because Italy was a great power, unlike Spain. Spain hasn't had a functioning military since the tercios in the 1600s, no one expected them to fare well against any kind of opponent really.
Aiden Walker
ok now that's make sense. Seems like late monarchical Spain was very corrupt Riffians were mountainnigger tribesmen and can be best compared to Germanic tribes in Ancient Europe . I mean nothing sophisticated really now show at the doll where Polish man hurt you Ahmed
>be Franco >invite hordes of moors from the batallón indígena into Spain to rape and kill your own population >revered by right wing zoomers and racists as 'based'
Gabriel Sullivan
Except they didn't. Modern wars are nothing but psyops.
You lost both in the Ethipoian war and then in WW2. The Rif was rekt in 1926 and North Morocco was a Spanish colony until 1956 and they still keep some cities. See Stop being high on pasta, Mario and bow to the Abyssinian master race.
Josiah Bennett
kek. Angel Cop is retarded
Juan Mitchell
>Gender violence and rape in Francoist Spain was a problem that was a result of Nationalist attitudes developed during the Spanish Civil War. Sexual violence was common on the part of Nationalist forces and their allies during the Civil War. Falangist rearguard troops would rape and murder women in cemeteries, hospitals, farmhouses, and prisons. They would rape, torture and murder socialists, young girls, nurses and milicianas. Regular Nationalist soldiers engaged in similar patterns of rape, torture and murder in places like Maials, Callus and Cantalpino. MOROCCAN Foreign Legionaries were used to commit rape against women to instil terror among local populaces, using rape as a weapon of war. Women in prison were also raped, often facing death if they refused to have sex with their captors. The exact extent of the problem will likely never be known as there was less record keeping around women, and quantification attempts have largely resulted in the erasure of women's history.
Hudson Rogers
But we actually won that war in the end. And with very few European casualties on top of that.
That's what he's saying. That battle was a defeat but they were outnumbered 10 to 1 iirc. The Brits lost one battle to the Zulus too, before reorganising and coming back with a larger army.
