Grand Sortie of Granada (Sacred Accord)

The Grand Sortie of Granada or the Granadine Sortie, known in Arabic historiography as the Return (al-Awda), was the conflict in the late 15th Century that marked the beginning of the ascendancy of the Emirate of Granada in the Iberian Peninsula during the Thanighazwa. It began in the midst of the Rif Crusade when the armies of Portugal and Castile were occupied with defending their southern territories from Moroccan incursions. After February 1489, the war became part of the larger Tenth Crusade declared by Pope XXX against the Moors in that month. At the end of the conflict, all the territory held by Castile south of the River Guadiana was ceded to Granada, and England was forced to formally dissolve its diplomatic ties with Castile and Portugal, marking the end of the First Sacred Accord. The loss of the Kingdoms of Seville and Córdoba to Granada meant that the Crown of Castile had finally lost all four 'Kingdoms of Andalusia' - Seville and Córdoba to Granada and Jaén and Murcia to Aragon.