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Volume 17 · 161 words · 1815 Edition

Enriquez having thus attained to the free and full possession of his dominions, made several attempts upon the wars some places in Galicia, but without success; so that he with the was at last constrained to make peace with Alonzo king of Castile and Leon, who had assumed the title of Emir-Castile, peror of the Spains; the more especially as his dominions happened to be at that time invaded by the Moors.—The number of infidels was so great, that the count of Portugal had little hopes of subduing them; but a plague breaking out in the Moorish army, they were obliged to retreat; after which he reduced several places belonging to that nation. But, in the mean time, the emperor Don Alonzo, breaking into the Portuguese territories, destroyed every thing with fire and sword. The king of Portugal surprised and cut off a considerable part of his army; which, however, did not hinder Portugal, the emperor from marching directly towards him.