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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt:...valor, but Alfonso was compelled to retreat. This victory, however, had no especial result, other than to give Yussef a foothold on the Peninsula. His victories over the Christians did not gain much for the Mohammedan princes of Spain, but, in fulfilment of the fears of the wisest among them, Yussef, one by one, subdued all the princes of Andalusia. Among them was Mohammed, from whom came the original proposal to invite the African chieftain into Spain. Mohammed and his family were thrown into prison until a ship was prepared to carry them in exile into Africa. Surrounded by the best beloved of his wives, his daughters, and his four surviving sons, his hands loaded with chains, he wept as the ship that bore them moved away from the shores of Spain. "It is the will of Allah," said this true Moslem; "my children, let us learn to support our lot with resignation." The royal party were confined in a fortress at Agmat. We are told that a compassionate poet presented the fallen king with a copy of verses deploring his misfortunes, and that he rewarded the author with thirty-six pieces of gold, which was the only money he had left. His future life was passed in penury--his daughters earned his living and their own by the labor of their hands. Thus ended the petty kingdoms of Andalusia, after a stormy existence of less than a century, and now began the dynasty of the Almoravides or ReliGious People. Yussef was more interested in his great capital, Morocco, than in his new possessions in the Penin sula, but he came to Cordova, which he wished to honor as their chief city, as the Omeyyas had done, and there he convoked the sheiks and walis, and caused his son Ali to be proclaimed heir to his vast empire. The instructions which he gave the young pr...