What the records say
- When
- 24 Apr 1590
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 35.97° N, 5.52° W
- Description
- 1590 naval battle
- Naval
- yes
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Ten armed English merchant vessels of the Levant Company are intercepted by 12 galleys of the Spanish Navy while attempting to pass through the Straits of…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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