Charles Morris
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7,961 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Aug
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Sternly and fiercely the battle went on, the struggling multitude swaying in the ardour of the fight.
Now the Christians, now the Muslims, surging forward or driven back.
With difficulty, the thin ranks of the Christians bore the onsets of their densely grouped foes, and at length King Alfonso, in fear for the result, turned to the prelate Rodrigo and exclaimed Archbishop, you and I must die here.
Not so, cried the bold churchman, here we must triumph over our enemies.
Then let us to the van where we are sorely needed, for indeed our lines are being bitterly pressed.
Nothing backward, the Archbishop followed the king.
Fernand Garcia, one of the king's cavaliers, urged him to wait for aid, but Alfonso, commending himself to God and the Virgin, spurred forward and plunged into the thick of the fight.
And ever as he rode by his side rode the archbishop, wearing his chasuble and bearing aloft the cross.
The Moorish troops, who had been jeering at the king and the cross bearing prelate, drew back before this impetuous assault, which was given force by the troops who crowded in to the rescue of the king.
The Moors soon yielded to the desperate onset, and were driven back in wild disarray.
This was the beginning of the end.
Treason in the Moorish ranks came to the Christian aid.
Some of Muhammad's force, who hated him for having cruelly slain their chief, turned and fled.
The breaking of their center opened a way for the Spaniards to the living fortress which guarded the imperial tent, and on this dense line of sable lancers the Christian cavalry madly charged.
In vain they sought to break that seried line of steel.
Some even turned their horses and tried to back them in, but without avail.
Many fell in the attempt.
The Muslim ranks seemed impervious, in the end one man did what a host had failed to perform.
A single cavalier, Alvar Nunez de Lara, stole in between the negroes and the camels in some way past the chains, and with a cheer of triumph raised his banner in the interior of the line.
A second and a third followed in his track.
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