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al-Mansur b. Bu Ghannam

المنصور بن بو غنام

The captain who led the Bani 'Amir, Fulitta and Bani Rashid levies — Spanish subjects — in the army Oran's governor sent to restore Abu Zayyan Ahmad II at Tlemcen; Hasan b. Khayr al-Din stopped them 1.

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Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Maghreb
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Summary

Commander of the Spanish-subject tribes Bani 'Amir, Fulitta and Bani Rashid 1.

The Tlemcen expedition

He led their levies in the army Oran's governor sent to expel al-Hasan and restore Abu Zayyan to the Tlemcen throne; Hasan b. Khayr al-Din stopped them 1.

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Hasan b. Khayr al-Din Barbarossa

People and things also explored

Battle of Mostaganem (965/1558)· Great Siege of Malta (973/1565)· Siege of Oran and Mers El Kébir (971/1563)· Abd al-Aziz b. Abbas· Abdallah al-Ghalib bi'llah al-Sa'di· Abu Zayyan Ahmad II· Ahmad al-A'raj al-Sa'di· Ahmad Muqran al-Zawawi

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 230
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Battle of Mostaganem (965/1558)

Seeing the Ottoman recovery of Tlemcen as a mortal threat, the Count of Alcaudete led twelve thousand men against Mostaganem — the Ottoman base against Oran — hoping to make it his own base against Algiers; the attempt failed, the Spanish force suffered heavy losses in Dhu'l-Qa'da 965/August 1558, and the count himself was among the dead.