Category: History - European
Conquest of Spain by the Arabs.--Slow Recovery by the Spaniards.--Efforts to convert the Moslems.--Their Homes in the Alpujarras.--Their Treatment by the Government.--The Minister Espinosa.--Edict against the Moriscoes.--Their ineffectual Remonstrance.
Conquest of Spain by the Arabs.--Slow Recovery by the Spaniards.--Efforts to convert the Moslems.--Their Homes in the Alpujarras.--Their Treatment by the Government.--The Minist...
15. CHAPTER II.The same day on which the ordinance was published in the capital, it was proclaimed in every part of the kingdom of Granada. Everywhere it was received with the same feelings of...
16. CHAPTER III.As day after day brought tidings to the people of Granada of the barbarities perpetrated in the Alpujarras, the whole city was filled with grief and consternation. The men might...
17. CHAPTER IV.Before the marquis of Mondejar quitted Jubiles, he received a visit from seventeen of the principal Moriscoes in that part of the country, who came to tender their submission, e...
18. CHAPTER V.As Don John of Austria is to occupy an important place, not only in the war with the Moriscoes, but in some of the most memorable scenes in the remainder of this history, it wil...
19. CHAPTER VI.While the events related in the preceding chapter were occurring, the marquis of Los Velez lay, with a considerable force, at Adra, a port on the Mediterranean, at the foot of t...
20. CHAPTER VII.Don John lost no time in completing the arrangements for his expedition. The troops, as they reached Granada, were for the most part sent forward to join the army under Los Vele...
21. CHAPTER VIII.Disaster at Seron--Death of Quixada--Rapid Successes of Don John--Submission of the Moriscoes--Fate of El Habaqui--Stern Temper of Aben-Aboo--Renewal of the War--Expulsion of th...
22. CHAPTER IX.While Philip was occupied with the Morisco insurrection, his attention was called to another quarter, where a storm was gathering that menaced Spain in common with the rest of C...
23. CHAPTER X.As the allied fleet coasted along the Calabrian shore, it was so much baffled by rough seas and contrary winds that its progress was slow. Not long before his departure Don John...
24. CHAPTER XI.Long and loud were the congratulations now paid to the young commander-in-chief by his brave companions-in-arms, on the success of the day. The hours passed blithely with office...
25. CHAPTER I.Seventeen years had now elapsed since Philip the Second ascended the throne of his ancestors,--a period long enough to disclose the policy of his government; longer, indeed, tha...
26. CHAPTER II.A review of the polity of Castile would be incomplete without a notice of the ecclesiastical order, which may well be supposed to have stood pre-eminent in such a country, and u...