Charles Morris
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 18 Aug
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To its banks came Maged.
led, say some of the chroniclers, by the traitor Count Julian, and encamped in a forest of pines.
He sent heralds to the town demanding its surrender, and threatening its defenders with death if they resisted.
But Pelistes defied him to do his worst.
What Megwed may have found difficult to do by force, he accomplished by stratagem.
A shepherd whom he had captured, told him of the weakness of the garrison and acquainted him with a method by which the city might be entered.
Forcing the rustic to act as guide, Magued crossed the river on a stormy night, swimming the stream with his horses, each cavalier having a footman mounted behind him.
By the time they reached the opposite shore the rain had changed to hail.
whose loud pattering drowned the noise of the horses' hoofs, as the assailants rode to a weak place in the wall of which the shepherd had told them.
Here the battlements were broken, and part of the wall had fallen, and nearby grew a fig tree whose branches stretched towards the breach.
Up this climbed a nimble soldier, and by hard effort reached the broken wall.
He had taken with him Magwed's turban, whose long folds of linen were unfolded and let down as a rope.
By whose aid others soon climbed to the summit.
The storm had caused the sentries to leave their posts, and this part of the wall was left unguarded.
In a short time a considerable number of the assailants had gained the top of the wall.
Leaping from the parapet, they entered the city and ran to the nearest gate, which they flung open to Magued and his force.
The city was theirs, the alarm was taken too late, and all who resisted were cut down.
By day dawn Cordova was lost to Spain, with the exception of the Church of Saint George, a large and strong edifice, in which Pelistes had taken refuge with the remnant of his men.
Here he found an ample supply of food and obtained water from some secret source, so that he was enabled to hold out against the enemy.
For three long months the brave garrison defied its foes, though Magued made every effort to take the church.
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