Salé Rabat-Sale Morocco
Years: 1260 - 1260
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Abdallah ibn Yasin, delighted at the apparent ease of the Almoravids’ advance, ventures with only a light escort into the lands of the Berghwata, a confederation of Berber tribes of the Atlantic coast of Morocco, belonging to the Masmuda group of tribes, and is promptly killed.
Abu Bakr, who is at this time mopping up the area north of Aghmat, wheels the Almoravid army and conquers the Berghwata in a brutal campaign of revenge.
Marinid ruler Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq had died of disease in 1258 and been interred in a new necropolis at the ancient city of Chellah.
His uncle Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqq, fourth son of founding dynast Abd Al-Haqq I, had succeeded to the throne.
The Castilians in 1260 raid Salé, across the Bou Regreg from Chellah, to the north.
...Sidi al-Ayachi in the north.
Salé has become a sort of independent Republic under Moroccan marabout and warlord Sidi al-Ayashi, who leads a counter-offensive against Spain, privateering against its shipping, and obtaining the help of the Moriscos and the English.
...Sale, and ...
After seven hours of fighting, the Moroccan artillery suffers severe damage, and the French bombard the city through the night, damaging the city's infrastructure and the Great Mosque of Salé.
French losses are minimal, with only four dead and eighteen wounded.
Twenty-four Moroccans die and forty-seven are wounded, two-thirds of whom are civilians.
The French forces withdraw, and both sides claim victory.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
― George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905)
