Charles Morris
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Aug
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The gap between the camels and the guard widened.
Dozens, hundreds, rushed to join their daring leader.
The camels were loosened and dispersed, the negroes attacked front and rear, perished or fled.
The living wall that guarded the emperor was gone, and his sacred person was in peril.
Mohammed was dazed, his lips still repeated from the Quran God alone is true and Satan is a betrayer.
But terror was beginning to stir the roots of his hair.
An Arab rode up on a swift mare, and springing to the ground cried Mount and flee, O king, not thy steed but my mare.
She comes of the noblest breed and knows not how to fail her rider in his need.
All is lost.
Mount and flee.
All was lost indeed.
Mohammed scrambled up and set off at the best speed of the Arabian steed, followed by his troops in a panic of terror.
The route was complete.
While day continued the Christian horsemen followed and struck, until the bodies of slain moors lay so thick upon the plain that there was scarce room for man or horse to pass.
Then Archbishop Rodrigo, who had done so much towards the victory, stood before Mohammed's tent and in a loud voice intoned the Tedum Laudamus, the soldiers uniting in the sacred chant of victory.
The Archbishop, who became the historian of this decisive battle, speaks of two hundred thousand Muslims slain.
We cannot believe it so many despite the historian's statement.
twenty five Christians alone fell.
This is as much too small as the other estimate is too large, but whatever the losses it was a great and glorious victory, and the spoils of war that fell to the victors were immense.
Gold and silver were there in abundance, horses, camels, and wagons in profusion, arms of all kinds, commissary stores in quantities.
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