Naval Battle of Lisbon
| date | March 7, 1373 |
|---|---|
| place | Lisbon |
| output | Castilian victory |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| 4 galleys 15 naos |
12 galleys |
| losses | |
|
Very high |
Low |
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Chevauchées of the 1340s: Saint-Omer - Auberoche
Edward III. Campaign (1346/47): Caen - Blanchetaque - Crécy - Calais
War of the Breton Succession (1341–1364) : Champtoceaux - Brest - Morlaix - Saint-Pol-de-Léon - La Roche-Derrien - Tournament of Thirty - Mauron - Auray
France's allies : Neville's Cross - Les Espagnols sur Mer - Brignais
Chevauchées of the 1350s: Poitiers
Castilian Civil War & War of the Two Peter (1351–1375): Barcelona - Araviana - Nájera - Montiel
French counter-offensive: La Rochelle - Gravesend
Wars between Portugal and Castile (1369– 1385): Lisbon - Saltés - Lisbon - Aljubarrota
Battle of Northern France: Rouen - Baugé - Meaux - Cravant - La Brossinière - Verneuil
Jeanne d'Arc and the turn of the war: Orléans - Battle of the herring - Jargeau - Meung-sur-Loire - Beaugency - Patay - Compiegne - Gerberoy
The naval battle of Lisbon took place on March 7, 1373 . There a Castilian fleet under Ambrosio Boccanegra defeated a Portuguese fleet. The victory led to the victory of the Castilians in the Second Ferdinandean War .
prehistory
Shortly after the end of the First Ferdinandic War , Ferdinand I of Portugal signed a treaty with John of Gaunt on July 10, 1372 , which promised mutual support against Castile.
After the agreement was signed, the Portuguese monarch ordered the embargo of Castilian ships in their ports so that the Peter I sympathizers could invade Galicia . Henry II of Castile reacted quickly and decided to invade Portugal. He placed his base of operations in Zamora , and in the month of December 1372 he began the invasion. He systematically advanced against Lisbon. While the ground offensive was successfully implemented, Ambrosio Boccanegra sailed with a fleet of 12 galleys from Seville to Lisbon.
battle
On March 7, 1373 he sighted Lisbon. After crossing the Mar da Palha , he attacked a Portuguese fleet of 4 galleys and 15 naos , which were under the command of Admiral Lanzarote Pessanha and which were stationed in the port of Lisbon and then ran out of the port to catch the oncoming Castilian fleet to be able to fight.
Their efforts were, however, useless because the Portuguese admiral hesitated in his actions towards the enemy fleet. So the Castilian fleet under the resolute and self-confident Boccanegra was able to capture 2 galleys and most of the naos of the Portuguese during the ensuing naval battle and thus win the battle.
consequences
Admiral Pessanha lost his post due to his actions in the battle and was replaced by Juan Alfonso Tello , while Ferdinand I of Portugal was forced by this defeat to ask Henry II for peace, as no English reinforcements had come to Portugal until then Aftermath of the La Rochelle disaster .
He therefore signed the Treaty of Santarém with him on March 19, 1373. That was the end of the Second Ferdinandic War and also the last service of Ambrosio Boccanegra for King Henry II, who then retired and returned to his homeland that same year died. He was succeeded by Fernando Sánchez de Tovar .
See also
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