Battle of RÃo Salado
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The Battle of Salado was held on October 30, 1340 in Tarifa in the present province of Cádiz instead. She was one of the most important battles of the last stage of the Reconquista. In her beat the combined forces of Alfonso XI. of Castile and Alfonso IV of Portugal, the Moroccan Marinids under Abu l -Hasan and their allies, the Nasrid Granada under Yusuf I, who besieged Tarifa.
Prehistory
After the defeat in 1330 at the Battle of Teba the Nasrid Emir Muhammad IV had called to the aid of the Granada Meriniden Sultan Abu Hasan. Hasan then came with a fleet and an army from Morocco, who landed in Algeciras 1333. After five months of siege they had conquered in June 1333 the Castilian town of Gibraltar. Abu Hasan was then returned to Morocco, to compile a large army with the goal as much as possible to make the Christian conquests of the last few centuries back.
The subsequent invasion was the last attempt of the Marinids to build on the Iberian Peninsula a power center.
The Battle
Abu l -Hasan defeated in April 1340 a Christian fleet at the Battle of Gibraltar, sat with a large force across the Strait of Gibraltar, leaving his troops in Algeciras and Gibraltar collect. In August, he united his forces with those of Yusuf I and began with him together to besiege the town of Tarifa.
Alfonso XI. of Castile was able to convince the kings of Portugal, Aragon and France from the Iberian threat to their possessions by the Marinids and set up a relief army. Pope Benedict XII. even issued a religious crusade in favor special tax Alfonso.
In October, the Christian relief force arrived overland before Tarifa, as well as a new Castilian fleet. The contemporary information about the troop levels of the Christian and the Muslim army are grossly exaggerated, the Muslim army was probably greater than that of the Christians.
Just outside the city on the nearby river Salado it came to battle. The Muslims were defeated and retreated to Algeciras. The Christians captured the enemy's camp, including the war chest.
Follow
It was the last attempt an invasion of Spain by a Muslim army. The war with Granada continued for ten more years, in which Alfonso XI. could only capture a few areas. The city of Algeciras was captured in 1344 after two years of siege.