Page "Battle of Annual" Paragraph 2

On July 22, 1921, after five days of siege, Spanish forces garrisoning the encampment of Annual under the command of general Manuel Fernández Silvestre after the contiguous position of Igueriben had fallen, were attacked and destroyed by the Riffi irregular forces under the command of Muhammad Ibn ' Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi ( usually known as Abd el Krim ), a former functionary of the Spanish administration in the Office of Indigenous Affairs in Melilla and one of the leaders of the tribe of the Aith Ouriaghel ( known as ' Aith Urriaguel ' in Spanish ).