The Moors in their blind fury often assailed the most difficult and dangerous places.

Darts, stones, and all kinds of missiles were hurled down upon their defenceless heads.

As fast as they mounted they were cut down or dashed from the battlements, their ladders overturned, and all who were on them precipitated headlong below.
Muley Abul Hassan stormed with passion at the sight: he sent detachment after detachment to scale the walls, but in vain; they were like waves rushing upon a rock, only to dash themselves to pieces.

The Moors lay in heaps beneath the wall, and among them many of the bravest cavaliers of Granada.

The Christians also sallied frequently from the gates, and made great havoc in the irregular multitude of assailants.
Muley Abul Hassan now became sensible of his error in hurrying from Granada without the proper engines for a siege.