This chapter looks at the war and the Spanish capture of Tetouan from the perspective of the city inhabitants and Moroccan authorities. It proceeds chronologically—it starts with the war announcement, which triggered discords among Tetouanis and revived the latent conflicts between the city and the countryside. Then it surveys the war and the Moroccan military defeat through the chronicle of the scholar and poet Mufaddal Afaylal (1824–1887), whose call for military, social, and political reform sheds new light on the ‘age of Moroccan reform’ which the Spanish occupation of Tetouan bolstered. The chapter then offers a critical review of the historical accounts on the looting of the city, largely attributed to ‘rural savages.’ The last part focuses on the fall of Tetouan, commonly depicted as a new edition of the fall of al-Andalus in 1492. The fall of Tetouan strengthened the discords among Tetouanis, and it triggered what I call “male panic,” informed by global Islamicate narratives of colonial emasculation as well as urbanite’s antagonism with rural men. All in all, the chapter shows that the Spanish war on Tetouan stirred concerns around masculinity—around reforming it, or ‘protecting’ male honour—but it ends with an account on women as a reminder of the fact that their existence and deeds shall be grasped beyond patriarchal hegemony.