Khadir Ghaïlan

Khadir Ghaïlan was a powerful warlord in Morocco during the seventeenth century. He controlled large swathes of the region until his death in September 1672 at the hands of Moulay Rashid. During the 1660s, he was noted for his clashes with the Anglo-Irish garrison at Tangier. Despite gaining a success over the garrison at the [Battle of English Tangier|Tangier (1664)|Battle of Tangier] he was never able to seriously threaten the port. He agreed a number of truces with the Governors of Tangier.

Depictions

The play "The Heir of Morocco, with the Death of Gayland" written by Elkanah Settle in 1682 was a political attack on John Dryden, and is entirely fictional in respect of the characters used.