His prayer, according to ancient chronicles, was complied with, through the sympathy of isabella, and the gate was walled up.* With the melancholy caprice of a broken spirit, or perhaps with some superstitious feeling, he requested of the Catholic monarchs that no one afterwards might be permitted to pa** through it. ![]() I next sought the gate by which Boabdil made his last exit from the Alhambra, when about to surrender his capital and kingdom. As I paced the gallery, my imagination pictured the anxious queen leaning over the parapet listening, with the throbbings of a mother's heart, to the last echoes of the horses' hoofs as her son scoured along the narrow valley of the Darro. From this gallery, it is presumed, the queen lowered her son with the scarfs of herself and her female attendants during the darkness of the night to the hillside, where some of his faithful adherents waited with fleet steeds to bear him to the mountains.Ä«etween three and four hundred years have elapsed, yet this scene of the drama remains almost unchanged. A narrow stone gallery, with a low parapet, extends along three sides of the tower just below the windows, but at a considerable height from the ground. The external walls of these chambers are of prodigious thickness, pierced with small windows secured by iron bars. In the Tower of Comares, immediately under the Hall of Amba**adors, are two vaulted rooms, separated by a narrow pa**age these are said to have been the prisons of himself and his mother, the virtuous Ayxa la Horra indeed, no other part of the tower would have served for the purpose. While my mind was still warm with the subject of the unfortunate Boabdil, I set forth to trace the mementos of him still existing in this scene of his sovereignty and misfortunes. ![]() 132 archival photographs.Washington Irving - Mementos of Boabdil lyrics Determined to write about the little known stories, he is the author of several books including 'Breslau 1945: El ultimo bastion del Reich', 'Fuerzas acorazadas hungaras 1939-45', 'The Spanish in the SS and Wehrmacht.1944-45', 'The Bulgarian Air Force in World War II', 'Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana 1943-45' and 'Romanian Armored Forces in World War II'. AUTHOR: Eduardo Manuel Gil Martinez has been interested in history for many years, particularly the Second World War. In this text we will remember the amazing history of these made in Spain aircraft. Fortunately even today some of the HA-1112s fly majestic as worthy descendants of the great aircraft that was and always will be the Messerschmitt Bf 109. These aircraft manufactured in Spain enlarged the Bf 109 life about 20 years since the end of World War 2 because continued in active service until 1965 coexisting with the 2nd and the 3rd generation jet. ![]() When Spain acquired the manufacturing under license of the Bf 109 G-2 began the history of the Messerschmitt Bf 109s made in Spain, which gave rise to two aircraft such as the HA-1109 and the HA-1112, with several subtypes. Only a few months since the maiden flight, three prototypes were sent to Spain to be tested during the Spanish Civil War and shortly after Spain bought E and F series. The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was without doubts one of the most important airplanes in the history of aviation and since the beginning its history was linked to Spain.
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