King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

IN SPAIN
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guese saw them approaching “then incon-
tinent they ordained a piteous deed, for
every man was commanded, on pain of
death, to slay their prisoners, without
mercy, noble, gentle, rich nor other, none
except.”
As the massacre ended the Spanish host
charged.
Here Froissart pauses to give his opinion
of the Spaniard as soldier, speaking as a
half-English Frenchman, who in all the
intricate policies of his age had always met
him as a stranger and an enemy.
Prisoners
True it is at their first setting on they
are fierce and courageous and of great
courage and high-minded, if they have
advantage. They fight well a-horseback,
but as soon as they have cast two or
three darts and given a stroke with their
sword, and see that their enemies be not
discomfited therewith, then they fear and
turn their horses and fly away to save
themselves that best may. And at this
battle of Juberoth they used the same
play [indeed it is very Arab, and it is
what the frontier wars had taught them];
The
Spaniard
as soldier
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