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Capture Of La Mámora
The Capture of La Mámora was a successful Spanish raid, commanded by Admiral Luis Fajardo y Chacón, on the town of La Mamora, south of El Araich in August 1614 as part of a campaign against African privateering at the Moroccan coast. The fortress remained part of the Spanish Kingdom until 1681 when Muley Ismail Ibn Sharif, the Sultan of Morocco took the city from the Spaniards. Background By the year 1604, after the first Anglo-Spanish War, pirates had established a pirate haven at La Mamora. It became the main retreat of Atlantic pirates under the command of Henry Mainwaring. Philip III of Spain had started a campaign against privateering that led to the raid on La Goulette of 1609 and the Cession of Larache in 1610. By the summer of 1614, both the Dutch and the Spanish had ambitions to seize the town. The Dutch Admiral, Jan Evertsen had arrived in Morocco in June 1614 with a fleet of Dutch warships with the brief of entering La Mamora, defeating the pirates and build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebou River
The Sebou (Berber: Asif en Sbu, ) is a river in northern Morocco. At its source in the Middle Atlas mountains it is known as the Guigou River (Berber: Asif n Gigu). The river is 496 kilometers long and has an average water flow of 137 m3/s, which makes it the largest North African river by volume. It passes near Fes, the second largest city in Morocco, and discharges to the Atlantic Ocean at Mehdya. Sebou is navigable for only 16 km as far as the city of Kenitra, which has the only river port in Morocco. Its most important tributaries are the Ouergha River, Baht River and Inaouen River. The river supports irrigation in Morocco's most fertile region: the Gharb. History Sebou was known in antiquity as Sububus. Pliny the Elder states that it was "magnificus et navigabilis" (grand and navigable), flowing near the towns of Banasa (near the city of Mechra Bel Ksiri) and Thamusida. There is scant historical reference to the Sebou being used for navigation after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Mainwaring
Sir Henry Mainwaring (1587–1653), was an English lawyer, soldier, writer, seaman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622. He was for a time a pirate based in Newfoundland and then a naval officer with the Royal Navy. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Early life Mainwaring was born in Ightfield, Shropshire, second son of Sir George Mainwaring and his wife Ann, the daughter of Sir William More of Loseley Park in Surrey. His maternal grandfather was Sir William More, Vice-Admiral of Sussex. He graduated from Brasenose College at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded a B.A. in Law, at the age of 15, in 1602. He then served as trial lawyer (admitted in 1604 as a student at Inner Temple), soldier (possibly in the Low Countries), sailor, and author (pupil of John Davies of Hereford) before turning to piracy. From pirate-hunter to pirate In 1610, at the age of 24, Mainwaring was given a commission from Lord High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1614 In Africa
Events January–March * January 22 – Led by Hasekura Tsunenaga, Japan's trade expedition to New Spain (now Mexico) arrives on the Mexican coast with 22 samurai, 120 Japanese merchants, sailors and servants, and 40 Spaniards and Portuguese who serve as interpreters. Having reached the Americas after a voyage that began on October 28, the expedition travels to Acapulco and arrives on January 25. * January 27 – The Noordsche Compagnie is founded in the Netherlands at Vlieland as a cartel in the whaling market. * February 1 – In Japan, the practice of Christianity is banned and an edict issues for the expulsion of all foreign missionaries. * February 2 – Iran's Safavid dynasty Emperor, Abbas the Great, carries out the execution of his oldest son, Crown Prince Mohammad Baqer Mirza, on suspicion that his son is planning to kill him. * February 14 (February 4 O.S.) – King James I of England issues his proclamation ''Against Private Challenges and Combats'' in an eff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
