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During 1661 and 1662, he fought against the Portuguese in Extremadura.

The Spanish troops were ill-supplied and irregularly paid and in a rugged, hostile country.

Morale was poor and they were untrustworthy but they were superior in numbers and some successes were gained.

If Don John had not suffered from the indolence which Clarendon considered his chief defect, the Portuguese might have been hard pressed.

John's forces overran the greater part of southern Portugal, but in 1663, with the Portuguese forces reinforced by a body of English troops, and put under the command of the Huguenot Schomberg, Don John was completely beaten at Estremoz.