Battle of Sagrajas, 1086 – An ambush that almost stopped the Reconquista

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🚩 Alfonso VI’s steady expansion and incorporation of Taifas into his realm provoked a reaction from the Almoravids. Commanded by Yusuf ibn Tashfin, the Almoravid army met Alfonso force near Badajos. A victory for the Christians would break the last significant Muslim resistance and enable complete conquest of Iberia. A victory for the Muslims would stop and reverse the Reconquista.

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📢 Narrated by David McCallion

📝 Research and writing: Damien Peters

📚 Sources:
Abd al-Wahid al Marrakushi – Account of the Battle of Zallaca, taken from “Christians and Moors in Spain” – Retrieved from https://deremilitari.org/2013/11/the-battle-of-zallaqa-1086/
David Nicholle & Angus McBride – El Sid and the Spanish Reconquista, 1050-1492
John France – Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300
Ian Heath – Armies of Feudal Europe, 1066-1300
Joseph F. O’Callaghan – Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain
Joseph F. O’Callaghan – The Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile
Richard Fletcher – Moorish Spain

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