Firearm-deficient insurgents mounted surprisingly effective mountain resistance

Evidence

The Muslims in this confused series of campaigns (with others beside Don John of Austria leading punitive columns into various zones of the mountains) gave good account of themselves and showed themselves able to put up surprisingly effective resistance in spite of their lack of firearms. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1056

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general question of how irregular mountain fighters hold against gun-armed regulars — echoes Vietnam and other counterinsurgency literatures.