Excerpt from Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, Vol. 2 It was on Saturday, the eve Of the Sunday of Palms (says a worthy and loyal chronicler of the time), that the most Catholic monarch de parted with his army, to render service to Heaven, and make war upon the Moors.* Heavy rains had swelled all the streams, and rendered the roads deep and difficult. The King, therefore, divided his host into two bodies. In one he put all the artillery, guarded by a strong body of horse, and com manded by the Master of Alcantara and Martin Alonzo, Senior of Montemayor. This division was to proceed by the road through the val leys, where pasturage abounded for the oxen which drew the ordnance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.