The letters of Richard Ford, 1797-1858 . valid soldiers, a prison for galley-slaves. From1798 onwards it was the official residenceof Spanishgovernors, who made good use of their opportunityfor plunder. The dados were broken up to makefirewood for cooks and bakers ; the tiles were tornup and worked into shop fronts ; the leaden pipeswhich supplied the fountains were sold. A donkeywas stabled in the chapel, sheep were folded inthe courtyards, poultry penned in the halls. TheFrench invaders converted it into a barrack, apowder magazine, a store for plundered goods,and, when they evacuated it, bl
The letters of Richard Ford, 1797-1858 . valid soldiers, a prison for galley-slaves. From1798 onwards it was the official residenceof Spanishgovernors, who made good use of their opportunityfor plunder. The dados were broken up to makefirewood for cooks and bakers ; the tiles were tornup and worked into shop fronts ; the leaden pipeswhich supplied the fountains were sold. A donkeywas stabled in the chapel, sheep were folded inthe courtyards, poultry penned in the halls. TheFrench invaders converted it into a barrack, apowder magazine, a store for plundered goods,and, when they evacuated it, blew up eight of theMoorish towers. The work of gutting the placewas continued by the Spaniards, who tore downdoors, wrenched off locks, and carried off panesof glass. When Ford was there galley-slaves wereat work converting, to the chink of their chains,a part of the building into a storehouse for saltfish. The first real attempt to restore the Alhambrawas made by a peasant woman, Francisca deMolina, the Tia Antonia of Washington
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