A History of Gibraltar and Its Sieges

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Provost, 1870 - 280 pages
Contains a history of Gibraltar and the many sieges against it.
 

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Page 14 - With these thou seest — if indeed I go — (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadow'd happy, fair with orchard-lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 4 - HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM THE SEA. Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West died away ; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay ; In the dimmest North-East distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray; " Here and here did England help me : how can I help England...
Page 86 - Rodrigo showed : — his sword was in his hand, But it was hacked into a saw of dark and purple tint : His jewelled mail had many a flaw, his helmet many a dint. He climbed...
Page 214 - I perceive much desire that Gibraltar should be taken. My thoughts as to that are, in short, these : That the likeliest way to get it is, By landing on the sand, and quickly cutting it off between sea and sea, or so...
Page 63 - ... admonished Roderic of the magnitude of the danger. At the royal summons, the dukes, and counts, the bishops and nobles of the Gothic monarchy, assembled at the head of their followers; and the title of king of the Romans, which is employed by an Arabic historian, may be excused by the close affinity x of language, religion, and manners, between the nations of Spain.
Page 87 - Last night I was the King of Spain, — to day no king am I ; Last night fair castles held my train, — to-night where shall I lie ? Last night a hundred pages did serve me on the knee, — To-night not one I call mine own : — not one pertains to me.
Page 42 - Gonderic served only to forward and animate the bold enterprise. In the room of a prince, not conspicuous for any superior powers of the mind or body, they acquired his bastard brother, the terrible Genseric ; a name, which, in the destruction of the Roman empire, has deserved an equal rank with the names of Alaric and Attila.
Page 64 - Xeres was overspread with sixteen thousand of their dead bodies. "My brethren," said Tarik to his surviving companions, " the enemy is before you, the sea is behind ; whither would ye fly ? Follow your general : I am resolved either to lose my life, or to trample on the prostrate king of the Romans.
Page 63 - Tarik ; and the intrenchments of his camp were the first outline of those fortifications, which, in the hands of our countrymen, have resisted the art and power of the house of Bourbon. The adjacent governors informed the court of Toledo of the descent and progress of the Arabs ; and the defeat of his lieutenant Edeco, who had been commanded to seize and bind the presumptuous strangers, admonished Roderic of the magnitude of the danger.
Page 106 - ... handful of men ; there his followers went on dying through hunger, until he saw their numbers reduced to about thirty men and ten women, having no other food for support than the honey which they gathered in the crevices of the rock which they themselves inhabited like so many bees. However, Pelayo and his men fortified themselves by degrees in the passes of the mountain, until the Moslems were made acquainted with their preparations ; but, perceiving how few they were, they heeded not the advice...

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