The Battle of Mamora (1696) took place in the summer of 1696 between the Portuguese and Moroccan fleets off the coast of Mamora. The Portuguese left the...
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The Battle of Mamora was a military engagement between the Wattasid Moroccans and the Portuguese army which landed in Mamora [ar]. The Wattasids were victorious...
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Conquest of Melilla (1497) Spanish expedition to Tlemcen (1543) Capture of La Mámora (1614) Siege of Mamora (1681) Siege of Larache (1689) Siege of Asilah...
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conquest of Tangier Moroccan-Portuguese conflicts Battle of Azemmour Battle of Mamora (1515) Battle of Tednest Said, Maria Manuela Santos Alves on (2016-12-18)...
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The Capture of La Mámora was a successful Spanish raid, commanded by Admiral Luis Fajardo y Chacón, on the town of La Mamora, south of El Araich in August...
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The Battle of Wolf Ravine, also referred to as the Disaster of Wolf Ravine (Spanish: Desastre del Barranco del Lobo), was a military engagement between...
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Mehdya, Morocco (redirect from La Mamora)
(conquest of Mehdya). During this period, the former spanish fortress of La Mamora was restored resulting in the iconic Kasbah Mahdiyya . From 1694 to 1696, the...
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English ship President (1650) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
Lieutenant Stafford Fairbourne took command. She was in a boat action at Mamora on 12 June 1685. In 1688 She was under Captain Thomas Hopson with Dartmouth's...
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Henry Every (redirect from King of Pirates)
Henry Every, also known as Henry Avery (20 August 1659 – Disappeared: June 1696), sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, was an English...
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2012 Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera incident (category Battles and conflicts without fatalities)
and mayor of the Moroccan town of Beni Ensar, who intended to place the Moroccan flag on top of the rock. After several warnings, four of the activists...
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The Battle of Larache occurred on February 7, 1631, when the forces of Sidi M'hamed el-Ayachi ambushed a detachment of the Spanish garrison of Larache...
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place, as the fleet was diverted to confront a Franco-Spanish fleet (Battle of Málaga) which was aiming to retake Gibraltar. Once Gibraltar was in Anglo-Dutch...
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Ifni War (redirect from Battle of Edchera)
series of armed incursions into Spanish West Africa by Moroccan insurgents that began in November 1957 and culminated with the abortive siege of Sidi Ifni...
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Thomas Vaughan (pirate) (category 1696 deaths)
Vaughan (died 1696) was an Irish pirate and privateer who sailed for France during the Nine Years’ War. His trial was notable as a test of English common...
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Richard Want (category Year of birth missing)
Richard Want (fl. 1692–1696) was a pirate active in the Indian Ocean. He is best known for sailing alongside Thomas Tew and Henry Avery. Thomas Tew's first...
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The siege of Mamora was a military operation launched in 1681 by Sultan Moulay Ismail with the aim of taking the place of Mamora, which had been occupied...
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Perejil Island (category Territorial disputes of Morocco)
coast of Morocco. It is administered by Spain as one of the plazas de soberanía, and its sovereignty is disputed by Morocco. It was the subject of an armed...
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because their rear was pursued by the Moroccans. Battle of Azemmour Battle of Tednest Battle of Mamora (1515) Portuguese Tangier Portuguese Asilah Weston...
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surrendering to the Moroccans. In the year 1471, the Portuguese captured the city of Asilah from the Moroccans. The Portuguese built walls that surrounded the...
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siege of Melilla was an attempt by the Sultanate of Morocco, supported by Great Britain and Algerian mercenaries, to capture the Spanish fortress of Melilla...
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Joseph Faro (category 1696 deaths)
Faro (fl. 1694–1696, last name occasionally Farrell, Firra, or Faroe) was a pirate from Newport, Rhode Island active during the Golden Age of Piracy, primarily...
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The siege of Larache, in 1689, was undertaken by an army of Morocco under 'Alawid Sultan Ismail Ibn Sharif against the Spanish forces of Charles II, which...
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the following years, British control of the Bahamas had been secured. The era of piracy in the Bahamas began in 1696, when the privateer Henry Avery brought...
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Díaz Pimienta to take his battle fleet to expunge the intruder settlement. Díaz Pimienta, along with the Portuguese Count of Castel-Melhor João Rodrigues...
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Ismail Ibn Sharif (redirect from Sultan of Morocco Ismail)
of Tangiers was still ongoing, Moulay Ismail sent part of his army under the command of Omar ben Haddou El-Bottoui to conquer the city of La Mamora....
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Jean Bart (category French military personnel of the Nine Years' War)
August 1694 with a peerage. In 1696, he struck another blow against the Dutch in the Battle of Dogger Bank. The Peace of Ryswick in 1697 put an end to...
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Company Tried to Lead a Coalition of Pirates to War Against China, 1621–1662]. Bicheno, Hugh Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto 1571, Phoenix Paperback...
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Treasure Island (redirect from Treasure Island or the Mutiny of the Hispaniola)
piracy include: Five real-life pirates mentioned are William Kidd (active 1696–1699), Blackbeard (1716–1718), Edward England (1717–1720), Howell Davis (1718–1719)...
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Limberakis Gerakaris (category Prisoners and detainees of the Republic of Venice)
to the Venetians, who acknowledged him as Bey of Mani. In 1696, he sacked Arta because the citizens of the city had burned his property nearby. The Artans...
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