Campaigns of Moulay Ismail

Campaigns of Moulay Ismail
	File:Mulay Ismail.jpg
Date	1678-1727
Location	North Africa
Result	Moroccan victory Morocco recaptures La Mamora, Larache, Asilah and Tangier; Morocco temporarily recaptures Oujda and extends as far as the Chelif River; Moulay Ismail successfully re-establishes state authority;
Belligerents
File:Flag of Morocco (1666–1915).svg Sultanate of Morocco; Supported by:; Kingdom of England; (1704-1707); Great Britain; (1707-1713)	Spanish Empire La Mamora; Larache; Asilah; Ceuta; Melilla; Peñón de Vélez; File:Flag of Ottoman Algiers.svg Regency of Algiers File:Flag of Ottoman Algiers.svg Beylik of Mascara; English flag Kingdom of England English flag;
Commanders and leaders
Flag of Morocco (1666–1915) variant Moulay Ismail; File:Flag of Morocco (1666–1915).svg Ali ben Abdallah; File:Flag of Morocco (1666–1915).svg Ahmed ben Haddou; File:Flag of Morocco (1666–1915).svg Zidan ben Ismail; English flag	Fernando Villorias ; Joseph de Agulló i Pinos; Jean François de Bette; Andrés Copola; File:Flag of Ottoman Algiers.svg Hadj Chabane; File:Flag of Ottoman Algiers.svg Hadj Mustapha; File:Flag of Ottoman Algiers.svg Bouchelaghem Bey; File:Royal Standard of England (1603-1649).svg Charles II; English flag

The campaigns of Moulay Ismail were a series of military operations of the Moroccan sultan Ismail Ibn Sharif during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The sultan of Morocco built up a powerful army, made up largely of black slaves who were totally devoted to him, allowing the central government to be less dependent on the often rebellious tribes. Moulay Ismail managed to fight against the Ottomans in Algiers and took important coastal places from the Europeans: he captured the cities of La Mamora on the 30th of April 1681, Larache in 1689 and Asilah in 1691 from Spain. Also, he was successful in seizing the city of Tangier on the 6th of February 1684 from England. Moulay Ismail captured thousands of Christian prisoners and came very close to seizing Ceuta in a thirty-year siege.

Although the monarch enjoyed internal stability in his empire, during his reign there were a series of rebellions that were put down in favor of the sultan.

References

García Figueras, Tomás y Rodríguez Joulia Saint-Cyr, Carlos. Larache : datos para su historia en el siglo XVII, París, Instituto de Estudios Africanos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1973.
John Wreglesworth. Tangier: England's Forgotten Colony (1661-1684). Revue d'Historie Magrhrébine (2002) pp 215-231.

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