Battle of Salé
Battle of Salé | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Marinid dynasty | Kingdom of Castile[1] | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqq | Ruy López de Mendoza | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Unknown |
37 battleships[4] Unknown number of soldiers | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Heavy losses to the soldiers[a] |
The Battle of Salé was a raid of the Moroccan city of
Background
According to historian
Battle
The day before Eid al-Fitr in year 658 of the Hijra (September 1260),[2] thirty-seven warships were sent to Salé by King Alfonso X.[4] On 2 Shawwal, Castilian warriors landed in Salé and took the opportunity to perform the largest massacre in the history of the city. Citizens of Salé were busy celebrating Eid al-Fitr, and the Castilians killed many of them. The warriors plundered properties and destroyed everything in their path. Women, children, and the elderly were rounded up into the Great Mosque of Salé, where 3,000 of them were taken as slaves to Seville.[4]
For two weeks, Salé remained under the occupation of the Castilians,[1] before Sultan Yacoub ben Abdelhaq rushed to the aid of the city, and quickly ordered his troops to march to the gates of the city.[4] He ordered that all Castilian soldiers were to be killed, but some were able to escape the attack after ransacking houses, and looting and burning shops. Following the liberation of the city, the Sultan ordered the construction of the Borj Adoumoue and a wall opposite the Bou Regreg.[4]
After the failure of the battle, Ruy López de Mendoza fled to Portugal in fear of King Alfonso X.[6]
Notes
- ^[a] No ships were recorded to have been lost by the Castilians.
References
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- ^ OCLC 607484818.
- ^ "L'histoire du Maroc4 - Les Almohades(1128 - 1266 / 1269)" (in French). Cosmovisions. 2005. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ^ ISBN 9981-9995-0-4.
- ^ "Arsenal de Salé" (in French). Qantara. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ^ Ali Ibn Abi Zar'a (1973). Al-anis al-moutrib baroud al-qartass fi akhbar moulouk al-maghrib wa tarikh madinat fas. Dar al-Mansour, Rabat. pp. 313–349.