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TIL that after the Portuguese defeat in the Siege of Tangier (1437, against Morocco), Prince Ferdinand was held hostage until Portugal returned the city of Ceuta to Morocco. The Portuguese King never did that, despite his brother's pleas, and Ferdinand died in captivity, in 1443.

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