Sixth Siege of Gibraltar

When

1411

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

36.14° N, 5.35° W

Description

siege of 1411

The sixth siege of Gibraltar in 1411 was the only occasion on which control of Gibraltar was contested between two Islamic powers. After the failed fifth siege of Gibraltar in 1349–50, which ended with the death of King Alfonso XI of Castile from bubonic plague, the Kingdom of Castile was preoccupied with the Castilian Civil War and its aftermath.

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