| Battle of Mamora (1515) | |||||||
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| Part of the Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts | |||||||
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:La_Mamora_1621.jpg) Drawing of Mamora in 1621. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Portuguese Empire |
 Wattasid Sultanate | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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D. António de Noronha |
Muhammad al-Burtuqali Moulay Nasr | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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8,000 men 200 ships |
30,000 infantry 3,000 cavalry | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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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. The Wattasids were victorious, and the Portuguese were decisively defeated.[2][3]
- ^ Rogerson Barnaby, The last crusaders: the hundred-year battle for the centre of the world, p. 203 [1]
- ^ Susana Ferreira, The Crown, the Court, and the Casa Da Índia: Political Centralization in Portugal 1479-1521, p. 147
- ^ James Maxwell Anderson, The History of Portugal, p. 75