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The Gibraltar crusade : Castile and the battle for the Strait

Joseph O'Callaghan offers the first full and authoritative history of the epic battle for control of the Strait of Gibraltar waged by Castile, Morocco, and Granada in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries--a major, but often overlooked chapter in the Christian reconquest of Spain
eBook, English, ©2011
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2011
History
1 online resource (viii, 376 pages) : illustrations, map
9780812204636, 0812204638
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Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar
Alfonso X's African crusade
The crusade against the Mudéjars
The crusade against the Marinids
Sancho IV and the conquest of Tarifa
The crusades of Gibraltar, Almaería, and Algeciras
The early crusades of Alfonso XI's reign
The loss of Gibraltar and the crusade of Salado
The crusade of Algeciras and Gibraltar
Waging the crusade of Gibraltar
The aftermath : the Strait of Gibraltar to 1492
In English