Battle of Mamora (1515)

Battle of Mamora (1515)
Part of the Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts

Drawing of Mamora in 1621.
DateJuly 1515[1]
Location
Result Moroccan victory
Belligerents
Portugal Portuguese Empire Morocco Wattasid Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Portugal D. António de Noronha Morocco Muhammad al-Burtuqali
Morocco Moulay Nasr
Strength
8,000 men
200 ships
30,000 infantry
3,000 cavalry
Casualties and losses
4,000 killed
100 ships lost
52 captured cannons
Unknown

The Battle of Mamora was a military engagement between the Wattasid Moroccans and the Portuguese army which landed in Mamora [ar]. The Wattasids were victorious, and the Portuguese were decisively defeated.[2][3]

  1. ^ Rogerson Barnaby, The last crusaders: the hundred-year battle for the centre of the world, p. 203 [1]
  2. ^ Susana Ferreira, The Crown, the Court, and the Casa Da Índia: Political Centralization in Portugal 1479-1521, p. 147
  3. ^ James Maxwell Anderson, The History of Portugal, p. 75