Battle of Wolf Ravine

Battle of Wolf Ravine
Part of the Second Melillan campaign

Spanish troops on their way to Wolf Ravine
Date27 July 1909
Location
near Melilla
Result Riffian victory
Belligerents
Spain Spain Morocco Riffian tribes
Commanders and leaders
Spain José Marina Vega
Spain Guillermo Pintos 
Morocco Mohammed Amezian
Casualties and losses
153 killed
500 wounded
or
1,000 casualties (180 killed)
Unknown

The Battle of Wolf Ravine, also referred to as the Disaster of Wolf Ravine (Spanish: Desastre del Barranco del Lobo),[1] was a military engagement between the Spanish army and the Riffian army; the battle was a military disaster for the Spanish army.

  1. ^ Sebastian Balfour, Deadly Embrace, Morocco and the Road to the Spanish Civil War, p. 22[1]