Charles Morris
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first heard Aug 2026
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Abdullaziz, Musa's noble son,
Whose sad fate we have chronicled?
had been given the control of southern Spain with his headquarters in Seville.
Here, after subduing the Comarca, he decided on an invasion of far off Murcia, the garden land of the south, a realm of tropic heat yet richly fertile and productive.
There ruled a valiant Goth named Theodomir, who had resisted Tariq on his landing, had fought in the battle in which Rodrigue fell, and had afterwards, with a bare remnant of his followers, sought his own territory, which after him was called the land of Tadmir.
Hither marched Abdul Aziz, eager to meet in battle a warrior of such renown, and to add to his dominions a country so famed for beauty and fertility.
He was to find Theodomir an adversary worthy of his utmost powers.
So small was the force of the Gothic Lord that he dared not meet the formidable Arab horsemen in open contest, but he checked their advance by all the arts known in war, occupying the mountain defiles and gorges through which his country must be reached, cutting off detachments, and making the approach of the Arabs difficult and dangerous.
His defence was not confined to the hills.
At times he would charge fiercely on detached parties of Arabs in the valleys or plains, and be off again to cover before the main force could come up.
Long he defeated every effort of the Arab leader to bring on an open battle.
but at length found himself cornered at Lorca, in a small valley at a mountain's foot.
Here, though the Goths fought bravely, they found themselves too greatly outnumbered, and in the end were put to panic flight, numbers of them being left dead on the hotly contested field.
The handful of fugitives sharply pursued by the Moorish cavalry, rode in all haste to the fortified town of Orihuela, a place of such strength that with sufficient force they might have defied there the powerful enemy.
But such had been their losses in battle and in flight that Theodomir found himself far too weak to face the Muslim host, whose advance cavalry had followed so keenly on his track as to reach the outer walls by the time he had fairly closed the gates.
Defense was impossible.
He had not half enough men to guard the walls and repel assaults.
It would have been folly to stand a siege, yet Theodomir did not care to surrender except on favourable terms, and therefore adopted a shrewd stratagem to deceive the enemy in regard to his strength.
To the surprise of the Arab leader, the walls of the town, which he had thought half garrisoned, seemed to swarm with armed and bearded warriors, far too great a force to be overcome by a sudden dash.
In the face of so warlike an array, caution awoke in the hearts of the assailants.
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