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Cargando... The Battle of Alcazar: An account of the defeat of Don Sebastian of Portugal at El-Ksar el-Kebir (1952)por E. W. Bovill
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The battle was fairly large (16 000 Portuguese combatants and allegedly 60 000+ Moroccans) and tolerably important, inaugurating something of a golden age for the Moroccan monarchy under Abd al-Malik's brother and successor Al-Mansur, and, because both Sebastian and his uncle and heir Henry died childless, leading to personal union between Spain and Portugal two years later, so I was surprised that this appears to be the most recent book about it in English. It's a popular history of the kind that doesn't hesitate to pass judgement: the young king Sebastian is portrayed as having very few redeeming features beyond personal bravery, Philip II of Spain (also Philip I of Portugal from 1580) is portrayed as simultaneously vacillating and fanatical, etc. While Bovill didn't think much of Moroccans generally, the portrait of Abd al-Malik personally is rather glowing.
While not worse than that I perserved - it helps it's just ~200pp - I'm happy I got a free copy off the 'Net; money on this would not have felt well spent.