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EARLY HISTORY OF MILITARY, WAR AND WEAPONRY. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. Any professional or amateur student of war will thrill at the untold riches in this collection of battle theory and practice in the early Western World. The Age of Discovery and Enlightenment was also a time of great political and religious unrest, revealed in accounts of conflicts such as the Wars of the Roses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ The history of the conquest of Spain by the Moors Together with the life of the most illustrious monarch Almanzor. And of the several revolutions of the mighty empire of the Caliphs Verdadera historia del rey Don Rodrigo. Luna, Miguel de, 16th/17th cent. Mansur ibn Abi `Amir, 939-1002. Translation of "Verdadera historia del rey Don Rodrigo". Translator's dedication signed: M.T. This work, which Southey was inclined to consider an authentic history of the Arabic conquest of Spain, to A.D. 761, and as written in Arabic but two years later, is now shown by Conde, Gayangos and others to be a bold literary forgery of little value, originally composed by Miguel de Luna. cf. Ticknor, Hist. Span. lit., London, 1849, v. 1, p. 195-196, note. Identified on UMI microfilm reel 669 as Wing H2148A (number cancelled in Wing 2nd ed.). [32], 237 p. London: printed by F. Leach, for S.H. and are to be sold by T. Fox at the Angel in Westminster Hall, 1687. Wing (2nd ed.) / L3484A En