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ColouredIn the South African context, the term coloured refers to people of mixed black and white descent, with some Malay influence in the Western cape communities.They form a number of culturally distinct groups and were legally considered a separate group under Apartheid's racial classification legislation. They are spread across the country but the largest and most distinctive group is in the Western Cape[?] where there was strong influence from Malaysian[?] slaves brought by Dutch colonists. This had led to a slightly different language use and a strongly Muslim heritage. of old Ali Atar caught the note. "That is an Italian trumpet," said he
count.html">count de Cabra in another direction, and it seemed to the Moors
among the oaks, now charged upon the enemy.html">enemy: the latter did not
variety of alarums, the attacks from opposite quarters, the obscurity
adversaries. Broken and dismayed, they retreated fighting, and
their retreat from becoming a headlong flight.html">flight. If Boabdil had
enterprise, he manifested courage and presence of mind amid the
choicest and most loyal of his guards, he made repeated stand
leagues, and the way was strewn with the flower of his chivalry.
as it is called by the Moorish chroniclers), which, swollen by recent
ensued. horse.html">Horse and foot.html">foot precipitated themselves into the stream.
others trampled down the foot-soldiers; many were drowned and
the opposite side immediately took to flight; the horsemen, too, who
scoured for the frontier.
The little band.html">band of devoted cavaliers about the king serried their
until he should have time to cross. In the tumult his horse was
struggling forward to the ford.html">ford and in peril from the lances of their
object, he retreated along the bank of the river, and endeavored
looking back, he beheld his loyal band at length give way,
the ford, followed pell-mell by the enemy, and several of them
endeavor to swim across, he was discovered by Martin Hurtado,
prisons of Granada and exchanged for a Christian knight. Hurtado
other soldiers approaching, Boabdil cried for quarter, proclaiming
this moment came up several men of Vaena, of the troop of the count
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