ABSTRACT

Yusuf had come to Spain this second time to deliver Andalusia from the only two Christian menaces that had survived the victory of Sagrajas, namely, Aledo and the Cid. In this campaign he had at all costs to consolidate the gains of the first and, with this end in view, despite the failure of the Aledo expedition, before returning to Almeria, he in the first instance detached 400 horse and, later, a whole army under Prince Mohammed ibn Teshufin, to protect the Valencian region against Rodrigo. Thereupon he took ship at Algeciras and returned to Morocco.