 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1789 - 424 pages
...beenilluftrated by the encounter which determined the fate of the kingdom ; the ftream of the Guadalete ; which falls into the bay , divided the two camps , and marked the advancing and retreating fkirmifhes of three fucceffive and blc ody days. On the fourth day , the two armies joined a more ferious... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...encounter which deter- and victomined the fate of the kingdom ; the stream of the Guadalete, ^9i ^ y which falls into the bay, divided the two camps, and...advancing and retreating skirmishes of three successive and bloody days. On the fourth day, the two armies joined a more serious and decisive issue ; but Alaric... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...illustrated by the encounter which determined the fate of the kingdom. The stream of the Guadalete, which falls into the bay, divided the two camps, and...advancing and retreating skirmishes of three {successive and bloody days. On the fourth day, the two armies joined a more serious and decisive issue ; but Alaric... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 592 pages
...illustrated by the encounter which determined the fate of the kingdom. The stream of the Guadalete, which falls into the bay, divided the two camps, and...advancing and retreating skirmishes of three successive and bloody days. On the fourth day, the two armies joined a more serious and decisive issue ; but Alaric... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 596 pages
...divided the two camps, and marked the advancing ahd retreating skirmishes of three successive and bloody days. On the fourth day, the two armies joined a more serious and decisive issue ; but Alaric would have blushed at the sight of his unworthy successor, sustaining on his head a diadem... | |
 | Alexander Beaumont - 1809 - 540 pages
...three successive days was stained with the blood of the contending armies; the fourth day was decisive. Notwithstanding the valour of the Saracens they fainted...the weight of multitudes, and the plain of Xeres was strewed with sixteen thousand lifeless bodies. " My brethren," said Tarik to his surviving companions,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1813 - 528 pages
...illuftrated by the encounter which determined the fate of the kingdom; theftream of the Guadalete, which 222 falls into the bay, divided the two camps, and marked the advancing and retreating fkirmifhes of three fucceffive and bloody days. On the fourth day, the two armies joined a more ferious... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 488 pages
...encounter which determined the fate of the kingdom ; the stream of the Guadalete, which falls into the hay, divided the two camps, and marked the advancing and retreating skirmishes of three successive and bloody days. On the fourth day, the two armies joined a more serious and decisive issue ; but Alaric... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 386 pages
...immense crowd of Africans. In the neighbourhood of Cadiz, the town of Xeres has been rendered illustrious by the encounter which determined the fate of the...advancing and retreating skirmishes of three successive and bloody days. On the fourth day the two armies, joined a more serious and decisive issue. Notwithstanding... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 540 pages
...encounter which determined the fate and ยป;ctory. of the kingdom; the stream of the Guadalete, which J-ae. falls into the bay, divided the two camps, and marked...advancing and retreating skirmishes of three successive and bloody days. On the fourth day, the two ar" The Nuhian Geographer (p. 154.) explains the topography... | |
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In the neighbourhood of Cadiz, the town of Xeres has been illustrated by the encounter which determined the fate of the kingdom. The stream of the Guadalete, which falls into the bay, divided the two camps, and marked the advancing and retreating skirmishes... 
