Charles Morris
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He proclaimed an al Jihad, or holy war.
ordered a massacre of all the Christians in his dominions, and then led the fanatical murderers to Spain to join the forces there in arms.
Christian Europe was pitted against Moslem Africa in a holy war, Spain the prize of victory, and the plains of Andalusia the arena of the coming desperate strife.
The decisive moment was at hand.
Mohammed left Morocco and reached Seville in June.
His new levies were pouring into Spain in hosts.
On the twenty first of June Alfonso began his advance, leading southward a splendid array.
Archbishops and bishops headed the army.
In the van marched a mighty force of fifty thousand men under Don Diego Lopez de Haro.
ten thousand of them being cavalry.
After them came the troops of the kings of Aragon and Castile, each a distinct army.
Next came the Knights of St.
John of Calatrava and the Knights of Santiago, their grand masters leading, and after them many other bodies, including troops from Italy and Germany.
Such a gallant host Spain had rarely seen.
It was needed, for the peril was great.
While one hundred thousand marched under the Christian banners, the green standard of the prophet, if we may credit the historians, rose before an army nearly four times as large.
Without dwelling on the events of the march, we may hasten forward to the twelfth of july, when the host of Alfonso reached the vicinity of the Moorish army, and the Navas de Tolosa, the destined field of battle lay near at hand.
The word Navas means plains.
Here, on a sloping spur of the Sierra Morena, in the upper valley of the Guadalquiver, about seventy miles east of Cordova, lies an extended tableland, a grand plateau whose somewhat sloping surface gave ample space for the vast hosts which met there on that far off July day.
To reach the plateau was the problem before Alfonso.
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