Talk:Battle of Granada

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[edit] Main article

I have added some details that I found in one of my history books to fill out the story of the siege, which was rather low key and I think much of an anti-climax. Most of the heavy fighting took place elsewhere during the 1480s.Is there anyone who can link an article on the conquest of Granada as a whole which is a more dramatic series of events?--AssegaiAli 19:48, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Numbers

The number of troops is ridiculuous. Even if the moorish leader rounded up every man woman and child in the city, it would not have numbered 300,000. Battle, a book I heavily depend upon, gives the figures much closer to 50,000 moors and 30,000 well armed Spaniards who increase their numbers to 60,000 near the end of the siege whilst the moorish numbers fall due to a series of defeats.Tourskin 03:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jewish armies in Iberia

None of the articles on Spanish military history reflect the role the Sephardic Jews and their armies played during the battles of the Reconquista. Sepharad, the Hebrew word for the Roman province Hispania, was the home of the Sephardim, since that was where the Roman Empire banished them. The Visigoths were new-comers to Hispania. Later, the all inter-married. (This fact made the doctrine of "limpieza de sangre" ridiculous.) The articles state "Castillian" armies, but Castile is only one province in all of Hispania and was only one small kingdom before unification. As such, not all "Spaniards" can be classified as "Castillians." These should be corrected to state the "Christian" armies or the "Jewish" armies. It appears that all the parties involved, Jews, Christians, and Muslims, had complex, changing political alliances and often fought along side each other to achieve political objectives. One example was the Battle of Higueruela, in which Jews and Muslim armies united and in which Muslim and Christians united against each other. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.220.170.98 (talk) 03:43, 14 January 2008 (UTC)