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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🚩 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.
Ar*bs incoming to claim it was them
Video about the Navas de Tolosa Battle the most important Battle of Reconquista except fall of Granada maybe.
Why do you call the European states by their names but the African states by their ruling dynasties? It’s called Morocco, not almoravids. Almoravids are a dynasty not a country.
Very interesting people often refuse to believe that sub Saharan Africans were in the ranks of many North African Islamic armies, nice to see you pointing out the facts.
Most definitely very proud of Hispania ancestors in medieval times…..kicking black moors and Muslim Arabs out of Hispania after 800yrs.
Perfect to make a train ride feel quicker
This lose would have never happened under king 👑 Sancho Of Castilla.
I truly believe he would have conquered all of Hispania.
Vers interesting
Very very nice!!
As a Spanish I love anything to do with La Reconquista
Although it is a bit annoying how long it took.
You should read Sidi by Arturo Perez Reberte, which goes into depth over El CID’s life after splitting from Alfonso and before Valencia with the Taifa of Zaragoza and how he becomes owner of Tizona his famous sword!
I'm a big fan of history videos, and this one was particularly well-made. The narration was clear and engaging, and the visuals were impressive. I learned a lot about the Battle of Sagrajas, and I'm definitely going to check out your other videos.
Thank God for the Reconquest ❤️ HalleluYah ❤️ AlhamduliJesus
it's cool to see the maps and the colors along with the battles…. it's like watchen a movie!
Awesome content
My father told me that in a book from his childhood it was said that this battle (Almoravids) and again later at the battle of Alarcos (Almohads), both delayed the reconquest by 200 years at once each time, according to a math progression of land conquered per year calculated in that book, and reconquest stopped suddenly for decades.