The people that forgets its history is doomed to repeat it.
The burden of the three kings, by Arturo Perez Reverte
.... I do not even studied in schools, I think. Moors and Christians slaughtered, nothing less. Bloody carnage. This medieval fascist, and so on. But it is possible that, thanks to that ... Today my daughter does not wear the veil when out on the street.
The burden of the three kings, by Arturo Perez Reverte
.... I do not even studied in schools, I think. Moors and Christians slaughtered, nothing less. Bloody carnage. This medieval fascist, and so on. But it is possible that, thanks to that ... Today my daughter does not wear the veil when out on the street.
occurred just eight centuries ago, when three English kings were shoulder to shoulder, a cavalry charge that changed the history of Europe.
The July 16 marks the 798 anniversary of that Monday the year 1212 the Almohad army Miramamolín Al Nasir, an ultra-radical Islamic had vowed to plant the crescent in Rome, was destroyed by Christians around Despeñaperros. After proclaiming jihad-insurance that sound familiar term "against the infidels, Al Nasir and his army had crossed the Straits of Gibraltar, determined to win back for Islam and Christian Spain, also invade Europe this sounds, imagine-weakened and indecisive.
The stopped a Castilian king, Alfonso VIII. Conscious that in Spain the enemy in front of you seldom made Rome the pope proclaimed that crusade against the Saracens, to ensure that, while war against the Moors, the kings of Navarra and Leon, his opponents, will play the Chinese, attacking from behind. Summarizing much the thing, we say that Alfonso de Castilla brought together in the field about 27,000 men, among whom were some foreign volunteers, mostly French, and hard monk soldiers English military orders.
core were the Castilian-MILITARY COUNCIL popular forces, to understand, and 8,500 Catalonia and Aragon brought by King Pedro II of Aragon, as gracious gentleman he was, came to help his neighbor and colleague. A late, reluctantly and not look bad, Sancho VII Navarra was presented with a small rock of two hundred horse-Alfonso IX of Leon stayed at home.
For his part, Al Nasir fielded nearly 60,000 soldiers from North African soldiers, Andalusian troops and a large contingent of volunteers fans of little military value and poor discipline: mob to the Moorish king, determined to facilitate your trip to paradise houris desired, placed in first row to eat the first brown meat doing there lance.
The carnage, very typical of that time ferocious epoch. On the hill of Olivares, near Santa Elena, Christians took the uphill assault under a hail of arrows from bows fearsome Almohad fortress trying to reach the arena where al-Nasir, who sat on a badge read the Koran, or did reading Paripe - I imagine that would have other things on his head, had planted his famous red tent. The Christian vanguard, commanded by Diego Lopez de Haro Basque, with cavalry and infantry Castile, Aragon and Navarra, broke the first line of the enemy, and was braking in bloody combat with the second. Militias such as Madrid were almost wiped out after fighting like lions of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Then attacked the second wave, with veterans knights of the military orders as hard core, unable to break resistance not Moorish.
The situation was becoming critical for us, "because I'm sorry, Mr. President, where Christians were ours," because, unable to maneuver, and not fight for victory, but for life . Along with Lopez de Haro, who were only five hundred forty horsemen of the Knights Templars, Calatrava and pilgrimage, scrambled with friends and enemies, they fought like a scalded cat. That was when Alfonso VII, saw the picture, drew his sword, waved his banner, took charge of the reserve line, swallowed and becoming Archbishop Jiménez de Rada shouted: "Here, my lord, we all die." Then, spurs, rode towards the enemy. The kings of Aragon and Navarra, seeing his colleague did the same. With shame bullfighter and a couple of eggs, waving their banners and were a burden sword. The rest is history: three English kings rode together in the hills of Las Navas, with the exhausted infantry screaming with excitement as he opened their ranks to let them pass. And the final battle around the hitching post, with the flight of al-Nasir, the slaughter and victory.
Can you imagine the movie? ... Can you imagine the material in the hands of Englishmen, or Americans? .. I guess so. But rest assured that, in this country stupid, self-conscious of itself, governed by even more stupid politicians lacking any identity ... did not shoot no television, nor ever will subsidize any ministry of Education, and Culture, because that would not mess or mariconeo, but real people who love their land by fighting to die.
Eye Important!
CENTURIES Afternoon 8, or 800 YEARS! to expel them from the peninsula, our earth.
was for our disunity, because Spain was comprised of various kingdoms and not just one. Were fighting among us, and now with 17 autonomous unnecessary, and we had only one king, one nation, a single military command to expel them, that's what it took for 8 centuries! and they, the other half-moon, who remember him, so take advantage of our present disunity, for A second silent invasion ... under the political permissiveness low profile, self-conscious, afraid to call things by their name ... nothing to do with those brave Christian warriors who fought and shed their blood .... nothing!
They remember our disunity, the same we have now and that many politicians encouraged! And they know it ... and incidentally, are rubbing their hands, laugh and take advantage for his second invasion ...
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