Identifier: modernhistoryeur00west (find matches)
Title: Modern history; Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ite Company (referred to on page 157) is deserving of mention underthe head of France also; and Charles Reades Cloister and Hearth hasgreat value. Special Reports. —1. The Battle of Cr6cy. 2. The Battle of Poitiers. 3. The English long-bow and the art of war (Oman, Art ofWar, chs. vii, viii). 4. The Battle of Bouvines (1214), and its effectsupon France, England, and Germany. V. EUROPE BY SEPARATE STATES: SPAIN. 155. Territorial Growth. — Until the Moorish conquest in711, the fate of Spain for some centuries had been not unlikethat of Gaul or Italy, and certainly not less promising. TheMohammedan invasion, however, separated the course of de-velopment in Spain from that of the rest of Europe; and forcenturies afterward Africa began at the Pyrenees. The wave of Moorish invasion had left unconquered a fewresolute Christian chiefs in the remote fastnesses of the north-western mountains, and Charlemagne recovered part, also, ofthe northeast. In these districts (Asturia and the Sjoanish
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1300-1492 SPANISH KINGDOMS IK THE MIDDLE AGES § 156) SPAIN. 169 March), several little Christian principalities arose, to beginthe long task of winning back their land, crag by crag andstream by stream. This they accomplished in eight hundredyears of war, — a war at once patriotic and religious, Spaniardagainst African, and Christian against Infidel. The longstruggle left the Spanish race proud, brave, warlike, unfittedfor industrial civilization, intensely patriotic, and blindlydevoted to the church. During the eight centuries of conflict, the Christian statesspread gradually to the south and east, — waxing, fusing,splitting up into new states, uniting in kaleidoscopic com-binations by marriage and war, — until, before 1400, they hadcombined into three countries, Portugal, Aragon, and Castile.Nearly a century later, two of these were united by the mar-riage of Isabella of Castile with Ferdinand of Aragon; andin 1492 their combined power captured Granada, the lastMoorish strong

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