Rambles in sunny Spain . LOUNGERS. here by the Moors was, as we have said, the taking of Zahara by theMoorish king, in 1481. Then the Spaniards retaliated. In February,1482, Rodrigo Ponce de Leon, Marquis of Cadiz, fell upon the lonelyMoorish town of Alhama and captured it, holding it until succoredby Ferdinand, acrainst preat odds. After that there was no rest foreither Moor or Christian in Andalusia. One party or the other wasraiding the populous towns or ravishing the fertile fields. Finally,after years of preparation, King Ferdinand himself came down. He. 2> C?J < O ? iii liiM^iiiffl
Rambles in sunny Spain . LOUNGERS. here by the Moors was, as we have said, the taking of Zahara by theMoorish king, in 1481. Then the Spaniards retaliated. In February,1482, Rodrigo Ponce de Leon, Marquis of Cadiz, fell upon the lonelyMoorish town of Alhama and captured it, holding it until succoredby Ferdinand, acrainst preat odds. After that there was no rest foreither Moor or Christian in Andalusia. One party or the other wasraiding the populous towns or ravishing the fertile fields. Finally,after years of preparation, King Ferdinand himself came down. He. 2> C?J < O ? iii liiM^iiiffllllwif ON THE WAY TO GRANADA. 241 attempted to capture the city of Loxa, which lay right in sight from therailroad an hour or two after we had passed Antequera. The Spanisharmy was repulsed, but some years later succeeded in taking it, afterterrible slaughter. It was in 1490 that the final preparations weremade for the capture of Granada, the last stronghold of the or four years previously nearly all the towns around the greatvega (or plain) of Granada had been taken, one by one. The nameGranada is said to mean a pomegranate. Said King Ferdinand: I will pluck out the seeds from this pomegranate, one by one, andthen take the fruit itself. And so he did. He captured all the out-posts, such as Illora and Moclin, and in April, 1491, sat down beforethe city of Granada with his army of fifty thousand horse and less than a year from that time Granada had capitulated, and theancient capital passed out of Moorish possession forever. The
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