2024-06-01/02 - The Theme With No Name

Started by nikgaukroger, November 06, 2023, 04:51:24 PM

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daveparish

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There were quite a few Catalan Almoghavars at this comp and I promised people I would dig out a few quotes from Ramon Muntaner's account of the Catalan expedition. So:-

"What can I tell you? The fighting was very heavy: but what good did it do them? For the Grand Duke and his company threw themselves upon them in such a manner that the Turks could withstand no more"

"What can I tell you? The fighting was very harsh and very cruel but in the end the Franks raised a cry, shouting "Aragon, Aragon!" and drew such strength from this that they overcame the Turks.

"What can I tell you? Out of all the Alans fewer than three hundred escaped"



So the quotes are a bit more complicated than I remembered - but they have the key features of a rhetorical question followed by a lack of detail except "we wacked them hard"   ....

rayfredjohn