Battle of Mamora (1515)

Battle of Mamora (1515)
	Part of the Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts
	; Drawing of Mamora in 1621.
Date	July 1515
Location	Mehdya, Morocco
Result	Moroccan victory
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire	Wattasid Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
D. António de Noronha	Muhammad al-Burtuqali; Moulay Nasr
Strength
8,000 men; 200 ships	30,000 infantry; 3,000 cavalry
Casualties and losses
4,000 killed; 100 ships lost; 52 captured cannons	Unknown

The Battle of Mamora was a military engagement between the Wattasid Moroccans and the Portuguese army who landed in Mamora [ar]. The Wattasids were victorious, and the Portuguese were decisively defeated.^[2]^[3]

^ Rogerson Barnaby, The last crusaders: the hundred-year battle for the centre of the world, p. 203 [1]
^ Susana Ferreira, The Crown, the Court and the Casa Da Índia: Political Centralization in Portugal 1479-1521, p. 147
^ James Maxwell Anderson, The History of Portugal, p. 75

[1] Rogerson Barnaby, The last crusaders: the hundred-year battle for the centre of the world, p. 203 [1]

[2] Susana Ferreira, The Crown, the Court and the Casa Da Índia: Political Centralization in Portugal 1479-1521, p. 147

[3] James Maxwell Anderson, The History of Portugal, p. 75

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