Posted on 10/21/2022 9:14:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Today in history, on October 21, 1094, a small force of Christian knights destroyed a massive Muslim horde in Spain, where the Jihad and Reconquista had been raging.
Some years earlier, the Almoravids, a North African group committed to jihadist teaching and led by the emir Yusuf bin Tashfin, began to pour into Spain to aid their Islamic counterparts, the Moors, who had suffered several significant defeats to the Christians in recent years.
In 1086, the Muslims and Christians clashed at Sagrajas. The Christians were annihilated; their king barely managed to escape with a dagger stuck in his thigh. Afterwards, in a typical gesture of Islamic supremacy, Yusuf had some 2,400 Christian heads decapitated and assembled into a pyramid, atop which the muezzin called the faithful to prayers.
Following the disaster at Sagrajas, one by one, Muslim kingdoms that had been liberated during the Reconquista -- even a few Christian strongholds -- fell back under Islamic control.
When, however, the Muslims overran Valencia in 1093, its lord, Roderick (or Rodrigo) Díaz of Vivar -- better known to posterity as “the Cid” -- who had been elsewhere, returned and laid siege to Valencia for nearly 19 months, finally reconquering it.
As a result, the pride and prestige of the glorious jihadist victor of Sagrajas, who had subsequently unified virtually all of Muslim Spain under his authority, was shaken to its core: “He has forcibly invaded my territory and he attributes all his success to Jesus Christ!” blurted Yusuf, who, on hearing of the fall of Valencia, “was powerfully moved to anger and bitterness.”
He was, accordingly, “determined to recover the city at all costs,” writes the contemporary Muslim, Ibn Bassam, before adding that “the news of the fall of Valencia filled every Moor in Spain with grief and humiliation.”
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ahh... thats wrong my friend. It was the Moops.
The maneuver Rodrigo used that day has come to be known as “la tornada,” or, the tornado. Once the Christian knights had charged through the enemy lines in one direction, they turned and passed through again in a different direction. Whole units were disrupted, broken apart and irreversibly separated. The Africans were packed so tightly together, and their shouts and screams and the clash of steel so loud, that few commands could be heard over the din of battle. Besides, the attack was so swift that there was no tactic that could be successfully employed to neutralize it.
What a cool story.
I’m not sure the movie, “El Cid”, captured all of this. I saw El Cid as a kid but I didn’t know what was going on except that Moses (Charlton Heston) was now a hero on a white horse.
All I remembered was that he killed his bride’s father or brother on their wedding day, and that she swore he would never know a woman’s love.
Interestingly enough, El Cid spent some time working for the Muslims, leading their forces against the Christians. So you gotta wonder if he was motivated by patriotism or by the desire for personal glory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid#Moorish_service
Wait a minute...
Who killed his bride’s father or brother on their wedding day, and she swore he would never know a woman’s love?
El Cid himself. It is a 35+ year old memory, but I’m pretty sure it happened. Condemned to sleep with a young Sophia Loren and to not know her love.
Is this true? Were El Cid’s bride’s father or brother raging Islamic Jihadists? Wouldn’t that mean Sophia Loren’s character was also a raging IslmoCrazy?
Her loyalty to her husband being equivocal, I’d take my affections and loyalty elsewhere even if she was a fox like Sophia Loren. There’s always more out there on the hot side of the Hot/Crazy Matrix.
He’s a bubble boy. He lives in a bubble!
In the histories of El Cid he had two daughters and a son. The son as a Knight, was later killed by the moslems.
The Poem of El Cid goes into detail about the marriages of the twin girls and the sorry husbands they had.
I have a great copy of the movie EL CID from the Miriam Collection, along with THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
They made great movies sixty years ago! No superhero crap.
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