The world: historical and actual . onal command at Granada. The city was welladapted to defensive warfare ; but even in the pres-ence of impending ruin there was dissension, and tothat cause, hardly less than to the prowess of thebesiegers, the beleagured city owed its fall, for fallit did. On the second day of the year 1492 it wasobliged to capitulate. The soldiers of the Crosstook possession of the Alhambra in the name ofChrist, and the vanquished king withdrew with hispeople to a small mountainous territory in themidst of the Alpuxarrus Mountains, where he wasallowed for a short time to rul
The world: historical and actual . onal command at Granada. The city was welladapted to defensive warfare ; but even in the pres-ence of impending ruin there was dissension, and tothat cause, hardly less than to the prowess of thebesiegers, the beleagured city owed its fall, for fallit did. On the second day of the year 1492 it wasobliged to capitulate. The soldiers of the Crosstook possession of the Alhambra in the name ofChrist, and the vanquished king withdrew with hispeople to a small mountainous territory in themidst of the Alpuxarrus Mountains, where he wasallowed for a short time to rule as governor, andvassal of the Christian monarch. But the Moorswere unequal to the task of building a third king-dom ujxm Spanish soil. Not long after, Boabdilcrossed the straits of Gibraltar and was lost amongthe Moors of Africa. With him did not, however,disappear the Arab from Europe. There lingeredmuch of the old stock, but as a separate and puis-sant political power the Moor ceased to exist inEurope with the fall of if ,*
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