1 2 A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East (2009), ed. Spencer C. Tucker, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), trang 534:"Sebastian spends considerable sums to euqip a large fleet of some 500 ships and gather a force of 23,000 men.."..."They then march into the interior, where the sultan has collected a large force of at least 60,000 and perhaps as many as 100,000 men."
↑ Mark Ellingham, John Fisher, Graham Kenyon (2002): The Rough Guide to Portugal, trang 581.
↑ Lyle N. McAlister (1984), Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700, Volume 3, trang 292.
↑ C. Tucker, Abu Abdallah Mohammed II Saadi had sought the assistance of Sebastian to recover his throne, which his uncle had seized with Ottoman assistance. Sebastian saw this not only as a Christian Crusade but as necessary to keep the Ottomans from the southern Iberian Peninsula and to protect Portuguese trade. trang 534.
↑ Peters, The emir also possessed a secret weapon-a wing recruited from Moors whose families had been driven from Spain and Portugal and who viewed the coming battle as a grudge fight. tr.25
