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Abdelmumen Abderahman Aben Alhamar Abu Abdalla Abul African Alfonso Alfonso III ally Almohades Almoravides Anales de Aragon Anales Toledanos Andalusia apud Casiri apud eundem apud Florez apud Schottum arms army Asturias battle Bermudo bishop brother Burgos Castilian Christian chroniclers Chronicon Condé conquests Cordova count of Castile Cronica crown daughter death defeated don Juan don Sancho doña enemy Enrique eodem tomo España Sagrada father favor Fernando fonso fortresses Fruela Galicia Garcia Granada Hispania Hispania Illustrata Histoire Historia hostile infante Ismail king of Aragon king of Castile king of Leon king of Navarre kingdom latter Lucas Tudensis Maria de Padilla Marlés Mohammed Mohammed IV Mohammedan Spain monarch Moorish Moors nobles Ordoño Pedro Pelayo Portugal possession prince princess queen Ramiro rebels reign Rerum returned Rodericus royal Sabio Santiago Seville siege soon sovereign Spain success thou throne troops Urraca Valencia victory walis xxiii Yacub Yussef Zurita
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Página 269 - BOOK lS NOT RETURNED TO THE LlBRARY ON OR BEFORE THE LAST DATE STAMPED BELOW. NON-RECElPT OF OVERDUE NOTlCES DOES NOT EXEMPT THE BORROWER FROM OVERDUE FEES.
Página 267 - And as he was about to depart he looked back upon his own home, and when he saw his hall deserted, the household chests unfastened, the doors open, no cloaks hanging up, no seats in the porch, no hawks upon the perches, the tears came into his eyes, and he said, My enemies have done this . . . God be praised for all things.
Página 256 - ... his father. The old man was sitting at table, the food lying before him untasted, when Rodrigo returned, and pointing to the head which hung from the horse's collar,, dropping blood, he bade him look up, for there was the herb which should restore to him his appetite : the tongue, quoth he, which insulted you, is no longer a tongue, and the hand which wronged you is no longer a hand. And the old man arose and embraced his son and placed him above him at the table, saying, that he who had brought...
Página xxxiv - Mohammedan princes, in the neighbourhood, and the taking of Huesca* by the king of Navarre, convinced him how fallacious was his fancied security. Seeing that no advantage whatever had accrued from his former expedition, Yussef now proclaimed the Alhiged, or holy war, and invited all the Andalusian princes to join him. In the moon Rabia I., AH 481, he again disembarked at Algeziras, and joined the confederates.
Página xxviii - You mean to call in the aid of the Almoravides ! Are you ignorant that these fierce inhabitants of the deserts resemble their own native tigers ? Suffer them not, I beseech you, to enter the fertile plains of Andalusia and Granada! Doubtless they would break the iron sceptre which Alfonso intends for us ; but you would still be doomed to wear the chains of slavery.
Página 110 - Theodomir *, gradually forsook their habitations in the south to seek a more secure asylum amidst the northern mountains of their country. They knew that in the same hills the sacred fire of liberty had been preserved, in defiance of Carthaginian, or Roman, or Goth ; and they felt that to them was now confided the duty of reviving its expiring embers. At first, indeed, the number...
Página xxix - Almoravides, which signifies men consecrated to the service of God.* The whole country of Darah was gradually subdued by this new apostle, and his authority was acknowledged over a region extensive enough to form a respectable kingdom. But though he exercised all the rights of sovereignty, he prudently abstained from assuming the title : he left to the emir of Lamtuna the ostensible exercise of temporal power; and when, in...
Página 50 - Moslem army were sure that some disaster was impending, and that the siege was to be raised; before morning the camp was deserted, the guard alone of Yussef remaining. While he despatched orders to recall the alarmed fugitives, the Christians, who were soon aware of the retreat, issued from the walls, surrounded and massacred the guard. Yussef defended himself like a hero : six of the advancing assailants he laid low, before the same fate was inflicted on himself. The merciless carnage of the Christians...
Página xxx - Bekir ; but the fear of a repulse from the proud chief of his family had caused him to smother his inclination. He now disdained to supplicate for that chief's consent : he married the lady, and from that moment proceeded boldly in his projects of ambition. Having put the finishing...
Página xxxiv - Toledo, but he could have entertained no expectation of reducing it ; and when he perceived that the Andalusian princes refused to join him, he eagerly left that city, and proceeded to secure far dearer and easier interests: he openly threw off the mask, and commenced his career of spoliation. The king of Granada, Abdalla ben Balkin, was the first victim to African perfidy. In the conviction that he must be overwhelmed if resistance were offered, he left his city to welcome Yussef. His submission...