Charles Morris
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Aug
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For twenty months he besieged the fair city until starvation came to the aid of his sword.
No relief reached the moors, the elements fought against them, floods of rain destroying the roads and washing away the bridges.
On june fifteenth, ten ninety four, the Cid Campiador marched into the city thenceforth to be associated with his name.
Ascending its highest tower he gazed with joy upon the fair possession which he had won with his own good sword without aid, from Spanish king or Moorish ally, and which he proposed to hold for his own while life remained.
His city it was, and today it bears his name, being known as Valencia del Cid.
But
He had to hold it with the good sword by which he won it, for the Moors, who had failed to aid the beleaguered city, sought with all their strength to win it back.
During the next year thirty thousand of them came and encamped about the walls of the city, but fighting behind walls was not to the taste of the Cid Campeador.
Out from the gates he sallied, and drove them like sheep from their camp, killing fifteen thousand of them in the fight.
Be it known, the chronicle tells us that this was a profitable day's work.
Every foot soldier shared a hundred marks of silver that day, and the Cid returned full honourably to Valencia.
Great was the joy of the Christians in the Cid Ruidias.
Who was born in a happy hour?
His beard was grown and continued to grow a great length.
My seed said of his chin
For the love of King Don Alfonso, who hath banished me from his land, no scissors shall come upon it, nor shall a hair be cut away, and Moors and Christians shall talk of it.
And until he died his great beard grew on untouched.
Not many were the men with whom he had done his work, but they were soldiers of tried temper and daring hearts.
There were one thousand knights of lineage and five hundred and fifty other horsemen.
There were four thousand foot soldiers besides boys and others.
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