Charles Morris
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4,189 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 18 Aug
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It was a varied throng that gathered around Pelo's banner.
Sons of the Goths and the Romans were mingled with descendants of the more ancient Celts and Iberians.
Representatives of all the races that had overrun Spain were there gathered, speaking a dozen dialects, yet instinct with a single spirit.
From them the modern Spaniard was to come, no longer Gothic or Roman, but a descendant of all the tribes and races that had peopled Spain.
Some of them carried the swords and shields they had wielded in the Battle of the Guadalete.
Others brought the rude weapons of the mountaineers, but among them were strong bands and stout hearts summoned by the drums of Pelaio to the reconquest of Spain.
Word soon came to Aljor, the new Emir of Spain, that a handful of Christians were in arms in the mountains of the northwest, and he took instant steps to crush this presumptuous gathering.
sending his trusty general Al Kama with a force that seemed abundant to destroy Pelayo and his rebel band.
Warning of the approach of the Muslim foe was quickly brought to the Spanish leader, who had once left his place of assembly for the cave of Covadonga, a natural fortress in eastern Asturia, some five miles from Cagas de Onis, which he had selected as a place strikingly adapted to a defensive stand.
Here rise three mountain peaks to a height of nearly four thousand feet, enclosing a small circular valley, across which rushes the swift Diva, a stream issuing from Mount Orandi.
At the base of Mount Auseva, the western peak
rises a detached rock one hundred and seventy feet high, projecting from the mountain in the form of an arch.
At a short distance above its foot is visible the celebrated cave or grotto of Covidonga.
An opening forty feet wide, twelve feet high, and extending twenty five feet into the rock.
The river sweeps out through a narrow and rocky defile, at whose narrowest part the banks rise in precipitous walls.
Down this ravine the stream rushes in rapids and cascades, at one point forming a picturesque waterfall seventy five feet in height.
Only through this straightened path can the cave be reached, and this narrow ravine and the valley within Pelaio proposed to hold with his slender and ill armed force.
Proudly onward came the Moslem captain, full of confidence in his powerful force and despising his handful of opponents.
Pelaio drew him on into the narrow river passage by a clever stratagem.
He had posted a small force at the mouth of the pass, bidding them to take flight after a discharge of arrows.
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