History of the Dominion of the Arabs in Spain, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1854 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 83
Page 29
... camp with great riches to ransom the body of their king ; but of all those costly presents Almanzor would receive nothing . In the moon Xawal of the same year 385 , the Hagib Muhamad defeated the Christians once more ; and after that ...
... camp with great riches to ransom the body of their king ; but of all those costly presents Almanzor would receive nothing . In the moon Xawal of the same year 385 , the Hagib Muhamad defeated the Christians once more ; and after that ...
Page 32
... camp in the hands of the enemy , who seized the tents , pavilions , arms , horses , and camels , with a large provision for the wants of the army , and great flocks of cattle . Zeiri fled , wounded as he was , until he had reached a ...
... camp in the hands of the enemy , who seized the tents , pavilions , arms , horses , and camels , with a large provision for the wants of the army , and great flocks of cattle . Zeiri fled , wounded as he was , until he had reached a ...
Page 40
... camp in the Comarca of Calat Anosor , and had divided their host into three great bodies , which covered the face of the country with their multitudes , as do the widely extended clouds of the locust , when they come darkening all the ...
... camp in the Comarca of Calat Anosor , and had divided their host into three great bodies , which covered the face of the country with their multitudes , as do the widely extended clouds of the locust , when they come darkening all the ...
Page 41
... camps , the roars of the trumpets and the thunders of the drums , with the neighings of a thousand horses , a thousand times repeated , were sent back in echoes from the neighbouring hills , until it seemed that the earth and heavens ...
... camps , the roars of the trumpets and the thunders of the drums , with the neighings of a thousand horses , a thousand times repeated , were sent back in echoes from the neighbouring hills , until it seemed that the earth and heavens ...
Page 42
... camp should be broken up , and before the dawn Almanzor was on his way to the passage of the Douro , which he ef- fected by the bridges of Andalusia : but his retreat was made with the diminished force arranged in order of battle , lest ...
... camp should be broken up , and before the dawn Almanzor was on his way to the passage of the Douro , which he ef- fected by the bridges of Andalusia : but his retreat was made with the diminished force arranged in order of battle , lest ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abdallah Abdelaziz Abdelmelic Almudafar Abdelmumen Ben Aly Abderahman Aben Abed Aben Gania Aben Omar Aben Radmir Abu Bekir Abu Giafar Abu Meruan Abu Muhamad Abul Africa Ahmed Alameri Alcaides Alcasim Alcazar Alfonso Algarve Algezira Aljama Allah Almagreb Almeria Almohades Almondar Almoravides Aly Ben Hamud Aly Ben Juzef Ameer Andalusia army assembled Atia Azala battle besieged Cabilas Cadi called caused cavalry Cebta Christians Comarcas commanded Cordova death declared defend Edris enemy favour force fortress frontier Gallicia Gehwar Granada Hagib Muhamad Almanzor Hairan hath host Infidels inhabitants Ismail Juzef Ben Taxfin King Aly King Hixem King of Seville King of Valencia Lamtuna letters lord Malaga Medina Mehedi moon Morocco Moslemah mosque Muhamad Aben Muhamad Ben Murcia noble possession Prince Saragossa Sclavonian sent siege sovereign Spain Suleiman Ben Alhakem Tangiers territory thee thou Toledo took tribes troops Valencia victory Vizier Wadha Wali Xativa Xeques Zeiri
Popular passages
Page i - With Index to the entire Work. In 3 vols. Matthew of Westminster's Flowers of History, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain ; to AD 1307. Translated by CD YOSGF.. In 2 vols. Ordericus Vitalis' Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy.
Page ii - Bonomi's Nineveh and its Palaces. New Edition, revised and considerably enlarged, both in matter and Plates, including a Full Account of the Assyrian Sculptures recently added to the National Collection. Upwards of 300 Engravings.
Page ii - DIBDIN. 2 vols. in 1. 7*. 6<i. Howitt's (Mary) Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons, Embodying the whole of Aiken's Calendar of Nature. Upwards of 100 Engravings. (Mary and William) Stories of English and Foreign Life. Twenty beautiful Engravings.
Page 437 - Is. 6d. per vol. Naval and Military Heroes of Great Britain ; or, Calendar of Victory. Being a Record of British Valour and Conquest by Sea and Land, on every day In the year, from the time of William the Conqueror to the Battle of Inkermann. By Major JOHNS, RM, and Lieutenant PH NICOLAS, RM Twenty-four Portraits 6s. Nicolini's History of the Jesuits: their Origin, Progress, Doctrines, and Designs. Fine Portraits of Loyola, Laines, Xavier, Borgia, Acquaviva, Pere la Cliaise, and Pope h'anganclli.
Page 437 - Pirate and Three Cutters. (Written for Young People.) With a Memoir. 8 Steel Engravings after Clarkson Stanfield, RA 3$.
Page ii - Lindsay's Lord) Letters on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land. New Edition, enlarged. Thirty-six beautiful Engravings, and 2 Maps, Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, with Memoirs.
Page 438 - Comprehending the Chronology and History of the World, from the Earliest Times to the Russian Treaty of Peace, April 1856. By JW Rosse. 800 pages. i«.
Page 437 - Edition of a work originally published at 31. 3s. by the American Government Pictorial Handbook of London. Comprising its Antiquities, Architecture, Arts, Manufactures, Trade, Institutions, Exhibitions, Suburbs, &C.
Page ii - CHINA, Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical, with some account of Ava and the Burmese, Siam^ and Anam, Map, and nearly 100 Illustrations.