. Robert Ramble's [pseud.] stories selected from the history of England, from the conquest to the revolution . wed to worship God as Christians or you think Mahomet could be a good man,when he did these wicked things, and kept threewives, and allowed all his followers to have asmany wives as they liked? The successors of Mahomet were called theCommanders of the Faithful. They were veryenterprising soldiers, and conquered they sent some of their troops, who werenow called Moors, and a good general, intoSpain, to make converts by force rather thanby persuasion. This general w
. Robert Ramble's [pseud.] stories selected from the history of England, from the conquest to the revolution . wed to worship God as Christians or you think Mahomet could be a good man,when he did these wicked things, and kept threewives, and allowed all his followers to have asmany wives as they liked? The successors of Mahomet were called theCommanders of the Faithful. They were veryenterprising soldiers, and conquered they sent some of their troops, who werenow called Moors, and a good general, intoSpain, to make converts by force rather thanby persuasion. This general was called Tarik;and, upon his first landing, a poor woman ap-proached him, fell at his feet, and embracedthem, telling him at the same time, that Spainwas destined to be conquered by a stranger,having a mole on his right shoulder, and havingone arm shorter than the other. Tarik had amole on his right shoulder, and one arm shorterthan the other: and he used to put his soldiersin mind of the old womans prophecy when theybecame dispirited. There was one Roderick,then king of Spain, and he affected to despise. (22) THE SARACENS. 23 this invasion; but he was soon convinced of hisfolly. One of his kinsmen, who had been sent,with some select troops, to make head againstthe enemy, fled, and, returning to the monarch,revealed the magnitude of his danger. Theroyal standard was unfurled,—the Gothic kingstarted from his throne, clenched his spear, andsummoned his nobles to attend him to the hundred thousand men assembled: the Moorswere not twenty thousand men in all. Botharmies met near Seville, and fought for three O successive days. Roderick was, on the fourthday, reclining on a car of ivory, drawn by twostout white mules, his head encircled by a dia-dem of pearls, and his shoulders encumberedby a flowing robe of gold and silken embroi-dery. Rodericks army was beaten, (see theengraving on the opposite page,} and he thenmounted Orelia, the fleetest of his horses, andfled, and w
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