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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AND MONOGRAPHS

viz., one
Francisco
de Moria

A century before, in 1248, for a battle at
the foot of the Sierra Morena, the hardy
Master had asked God to hold back the

At the
Battle of
Salada:
V. p. 199

though honest Bernal Diaz stoutly main-
tained the horse was grey and the rider
much like any one else, and indeed a man
whom he knew. At the battle of Salada
in 1340, he was seen in like manner and
recognized: says Rodrigo Yanez of Seville,
who wrote the Poem of Alfonso XI:

Yusuf of Granada
Alone bewailed his shame:
Into the Alhambra
A broken man he came:
“Why didst, O heart of copper,
Not break with me to-day?”
He broke his sword. “Granada
To day has lost her stay.
S. James, S. James of Spain
He killed my Moors for me,
He broke my gallant banner,
Broke up my company.
I saw him all that day,
With many armed men:
The sea was like dry land
And all cross-covered them.”