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Sancho had entered the Vega of Granada and was awaiting reinforcements there: and the Prince gave it strictly in charge to D. Gonzalo Ruiz Giron, and an abbot from Valladolid, and another, to guard those who went out for forage, and for food and for wood. The expedition pushed as far as the castle of Moclin, and already the provisioners were safe again in camp, and the others strag- gling back, when near the castle came in sight a hundred Moorish knights. Then the Master, because his heart was ...great, waited for none of the others nor yet for his own folk but started to attack them HISPANIC NOTES IN SPAIN 193 with a bare handful, and the Moors fleeing drew him on to an ambush where lay two thousand of the Moorish cavalry. These being discovered, assaulted, and they gave Gonzalo Ruiz the wounds of which he died; they chased the Christians back to the tents of the encampment and killed that day, between knights and footmen, two thousand and eight hundred: and there died the greater part of the freyla of the Order of S.
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