The Highlands of Cantabria Or Three Days From England (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Highlands of Cantabria Or Three Days From England (Classic Reprint) written by Mars Ross and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Highlands of Cantabria or Three Days From EnglandIt was in 718, in the cul de sac of Covadonga, that the Gothic chief, Pelayo, with his noble band of about 300, struck terror into the Moorish invaders, and dealt the first of those series of blows to Saracenic interference with Spain and her people, which cu] minated seven hundred years later in the conquest of their last stronghold in the Peninsula, Granada. At Covadonga it was that Pelayo donned his iron crown as King of the Asturias, Leon, and Castile, its material being the points of Moorish spears, taken from chiefs that he had slain with his own hand and here, too, the Spanish people are to-day erecting a noble cathedral in immediate proximity to the cave where rest the ashes of the founder of their nation. Almost every mountain and valley of the Cantabrian range has some tradition of that fierce and unequal struggle of the mountaineers for liberty, and they all appeal strongly to British sympathies.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.