Siege of Mazagan (1769)

Siege of Mazagan
	Part of the Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts
	; The siege and the evacuation of Mazagan in 1769
Date	Early 1769 – 11 March 1769
Location	El Jadida, Morocco
Result	Moroccan victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Portugal	Sultanate of Morocco
Commanders and leaders
Dinis Gregório; Bernardo Esquível [pt]	Mohammed III
Strength
592 men	70,000 men; 35 cannons
Casualties and losses
Unknown	5,000 dead

The siege of Mazagan of 1769 was the last engagement between Morocco and the Portuguese in Mazagan (El Jadida). The Moroccan army under Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah was victorious and the Portuguese evacuated their last garrison in Morocco, bringing an end to their 354-year-long conflict.

^ Carlos Nunes Silva, Urban Planning in North Africa
^ Pereira, Pedro Miguel Nazaré (2011). Bernardo Ramires Esquível (PDF) (in Portuguese). Lisbon: University of Lisbon. pp. 97–99.
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[1] Carlos Nunes Silva, Urban Planning in North Africa

[2] Pereira, Pedro Miguel Nazaré (2011). Bernardo Ramires Esquível (PDF) (in Portuguese). Lisbon: University of Lisbon. pp. 97–99.

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