Qualla: Battle of Rio Salado https://qualla.com/battle-of-rio-salado en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/k/j/battle-of-rio-salado-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Rio Salado https://qualla.com/battle-of-rio-salado Battle of Rio Salado: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-rio-salado/ Photo credit Ypsilon from Finland, CC0. The officer commanding the light cavalry along the Salado River made a report to Sultan Abu al-Hasan that would prove catastrophic: no Christians had entered Tarifa during the night. Whether the report was an honest mistake or a lie born of fear remains unknown. What is certain is that during the darkness of October 29, 1340, King Alfonso XI of Castile had slipped 1,000 horsemen and 4,000 foot soldiers through the sultan's lines and into the Tarifa garrison. The next morning, when the battle began, those hidden troops would strike the Marinid camp from behind. The Battle of Rio Salado, fought on October 30, 1340, was the last time a North African army invaded the Iberian Peninsula.

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/k/j/battle-of-rio-salado-wp/eykj-battle-of-rio-salado-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Rio Salado: The Last Crossing https://qualla.com/battle-of-rio-salado/ Photo credit user:falconaumanni, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali of the Marinids had assembled an invasion force that crossed the Strait of Gibraltar in the summer of 1340 -- 60 war galleys, 250 other ships, and an army that some chronicles estimated at 60,000 men. The crossing represented the Marinids' final attempt to...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/k/j/battle-of-rio-salado-wp/eykj-battle-of-rio-salado-the-last-crossing.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Rio Salado: The Christian Response https://qualla.com/battle-of-rio-salado/ Photo credit Roque Gameiro, Public domain. Alfonso XI moved fast. He secured Portuguese naval support from his father-in-law, King Afonso IV, whose admiral Manuel Pessanha brought a fleet that was reinforced with fifteen Genoese galleys and twenty-seven ships rapidly completed at Seville. By October, the Christian fleets ...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/k/j/battle-of-rio-salado-wp/eykj-battle-of-rio-salado-the-christian-response.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Rio Salado: Three Hours at the River https://qualla.com/battle-of-rio-salado/ Photo credit user:falconaumanni, CC BY-SA 4.0. The battle began at nine in the morning. Alfonso's vanguard, led by the Lara brothers, advanced toward the Salado River but met fierce resistance and could not cross. The king committed 1,500 additional knights, and the crossing succeeded. On the left, 3,000 Castilian knights rei...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/k/j/battle-of-rio-salado-wp/eykj-battle-of-rio-salado-three-hours-at-the-river.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Rio Salado: An Invasion That Never Came Again https://qualla.com/battle-of-rio-salado/ Photo credit Nicolas Vollmer, CC BY 2.0. The human cost was terrible. Many of the sultan's household were killed in the rout, including his wife Fatimah, daughter of the Sultan of Tunis, and Aysa, daughter of the nobleman Abu Yahya ibn Yaqub. Other relatives were taken captive. Abu Hasan himself reached Algeciras, cross...

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