precedido de su pendón señorial y seguido de jinetes y peones, venía á
reunirse al grueso del ejército castellano.

[Footnote 1: See p. 34, note 1.]

[Footnote 2: moros = 'Moors.' The Arabs who conquered Mauritania in
the Seventh century converted the native race to Mohammedanism, and
it was this mixed population that entered Spain by Gibraltar in 71.
There they remained in almost constant warfare with the Christians
until they were finally defeated at Granada by the armies of
Ferdinand and Isabella and driven from Spain in 1492.

Toledo was entered by the Christians under Alfonso VI in 1085. From
this time on Christian arms began to prevail in the peninsula.]

[Footnote 3: Toledo. See p. 50, note 2.]

[Footnote 4: puerta de Visagra. The gate referred to here is the
_Puerta Visagra Antigua_, an ancient Arab gate of the ninth century,
a little to the west of the _Puerta Visagra Actual_, which latter
was not built until 1550. The old _Puerta Visagra_ is now blocked
up. It was through this gateway that Alfonso VI entered Toledo. "The
work is entirely Moorish, of the first period, heavy and simple,
with the triple arches so delightfully curved in horseshoe shape,
and the upper crenelated apertures." H. Lynch, _Toledo_, London,
1903, p. 297. Its name is probably from the Arabic, either from _Bâb
Shaqrâ_ (red gate) or _Bâb Sharâ_ (field-gate).]

[Footnote 5: la del Cambrón. The Puerta del Cambrón is one of the
three open gateways in the outer walls of Toledo to-day. "Entering