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Consuegra, Battle of

Years: 1097 - 1097

The Battle of Consuegra is a battle of the Spanish Reconquista fought on August 15, 1097 near the village of Consuegra in the province of Castile-La Mancha between the Castilian and Leonese army of Alfonso VI and the Almoravids under Yusuf ibn Tashfin.

The battle soon turns into Almoravid victory and the son of El Cid, Diego Rodríguez, perishes.

Alfonso with some Leónese retreats into the castle of Consuegra, which is besieged for eight days until the Almoravids withdraw to the south.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)