The history of the island of Minorca / By John Armstrong.

  • Armstrong, John, 1758-1843.
Date:
1752
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Credit: The history of the island of Minorca / By John Armstrong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Agatha, which, as it was a Port of great natural Strength, improved according to the beft Rules of Art then in Practice, he refolved to defend to Extremity. Hither he was followed by the victorious Monarch, who made many courageous At¬ tempts to force the Place, and his People, animated by his Prefence and Example, per¬ formed Wonders againft the Defendants $ but the Situation of this Fortrefs on the Sum¬ mit of a fteep and very high Mountain, ac- ceffibie only on one Side, where the Way was fo narrow and difficult, that a Handful of Men could oppofe a whole Army, with the defperatp Valour pf the Moors, kept them long at a Difiance, and left them no other Hopes of getting the Caftie into their Hands but by flawing the Garrifom And indeed at length, the Moors, having but little Proviiions left, and ail their Hopes of Relief from. Barb ary beginning to fail them, confented to a Treaty with Alphonfo, wherein it was agreed, that the Ifland fhould be forthwith furrendered to him, on Condition that fuch of them as were able to pay a cer¬ tain Ranfom, fhould be tranfported in Safety to Barbary, and the reft to be made Slaves. In order to carry this Treaty into Execu¬ tion, the fame Day that Agatha was furren- dered to the King, which was the Seventeenth of January 1287, the Almoxariffe and his Family, with about an hundred other Per-