Battle of Sagrajas
October 23, 1086
Yusuf ibn Tashfin's Almoravid army, summoned by the taifa kings of al-Andalus to halt Alfonso VI's advance, crushed the Christian forces near Badajoz. Alfonso escaped with five hundred horsemen out of sixty thousand. The Almoravid intervention revitalized Muslim Iberia and stalled the Reconquista for decades. The thunderous sound of Almoravid war drums, never before heard in Spain, terrorized the Christian cavalry into breaking formation.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.