Here he reaped his first laurels, and acquired great military celebrity.

It is difficult to be dazzled by such glory.

He commenced his operations by the expulsion of nearly all the Moorish inhabitants of Granada, bed-ridden men, women, and children, together, and the cruelty inflicted, the sufferings patiently endured in that memorable deportation, were enormous.

But few of the many thousand exiles survived the horrid march, those who were so unfortunate as to do so being sold into slavery by their captors.

Still a few Moors held out in their mountain fastnesses, and two years long the rebellion of this handful made head against the power of Spain.