A musket ball had grazed Don John's…

A musket ball had grazed Don John's helmet in a skirmish as the campaign against the Moriscos continued, while Quijada had been fatally wounded at his side.

Philip had sympathized with Don John's distress at the loss of Quijada, who had been like a father to him, but admonished him that generals should not be in the thick of combat, but take a safe position from which to direct the battle.

His troops, however, have come to see Don John as more akin to his father Charles V than his famously desk-bound brother Philip.

Increasingly, they address Don Juan as Your Highness.

The example of Galera and Don John's determined advance has intimidated other Morisco villages, which had soon begun to surrender to Don John’s superior forces.

The revolt gradually sputters out through 1570 as its leaders quarrel, seek individual advantage, and murder each other, while the Turks and their Barbary allies turn to the invasion of the Venetian colony of Cyprus.