Charles Morris
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The year was seven hundred seventeen, six years after the landing of the Arabs and the defeat of the Goths.
Thus ended perhaps the most decisive battle in the history of Spain.
With it New Spain began.
The cave of Covadonga is still a place of pilgrimage for the Spanish patriot, a stairway of marble replacing the ladder used by Pelayo and his men.
We may tell what followed in a few words.
Their terrible defeat cleared the territory of the Astorias of Muslim soldiers.
From every side fugitive Christians left their mountain retreats to seek the standard of Pelao.
Soon the patriotic and daring leader had an army under his command, by whom he was chosen King of Christian Spain.
The Muslims made no further attack.
They were discouraged by their defeat and were engaged in a project for the invasion of Gaul that required their utmost force.
Palay slowly and cautiously extended his dominions, descending from the mountains into the plains and valleys, and organizing his new kingdom in civil as well as in military affairs.
All the men under his control were taught to bear arms, fortifications were built, the ground was planted, and industry revived.
Territory which the Muslims had abandoned was occupied, and from a group of soldiers in a mountain cavern, a new nation began to emerge.
Palayo died at Cagas de Ones in the year seven hundred thirty seven, twenty years after his great victory.
After his death the work he had begun was carried forward, until by the year eight hundred the Spanish dominion had extended over much of Old Castile, so called from its numerous castles.
In a hundred years more it had extended to the borders of New Castile.
The work of reconquest was slowly but surely underway.
End of chapter nine
Chapter ten of Historical Tales Volume seven Spanish.
This Libervox recording is in the public domain.
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