title: Granada: A Novel of Moorish Spain
author: Alexander M. Grace Sr.
description: Alexander M. Grace, Sr., is the pen name of a retired Foreign Service Officer with nearly a quarter century of experience overseas, including in Spain. He is the author of nearly a dozen books, mostly of the techno-thriller genre which have earned him a wide readership and outstanding reviews. He currently teaches International Relations at a university in Florida where he lives with his wife, four daughters, and three grand daughters.
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  Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
  
  
    
    
  INTRODUCTION.  
    
  NOTE TO THE REVISED EDITION.  
    
  CHAPTER I. OF THE KINGDOM OF GRANADA, AND THE
  
  
  TRIBUTE WHICH IT PAID TO THE CASTILIAN CROWN.  
    
  CHAPTER II. OF THE EMBASSY OF DON JUAN DE VERA TO
  
  
  DEMAND ARREARS OF TRIBUTE FROM THE MOORISH MONARCH.  
    
  CHAPTER III. DOMESTIC FEUDS IN THE ALHAMBRA--RIVAL
  
  
  SULTANAS-- PREDICTIONS CONCERNING BOABDIL, THE HEIR TO THE
  
  
  THRONE--HOW FERDINAND MEDITATES WAR AGAINST GRANADA, AND HOW HE IS
  
  
  ANTICIPATED.  
    
  CHAPTER IV. EXPEDITION OF MULEY ABUL HASSAN
  
  
  AGAINST THE FORTRESS OF ZAHARA.  
    
  CHAPTER V. EXPEDITION OF THE MARQUES OF CADIZ
  
  
  AGAINST ALHAMA.  
    
  CHAPTER VI. HOW THE PEOPLE OF GRANADA WERE
  
  
  AFFECTED ON HEARING OF THE CAPTURE OF ALHAMA, AND HOW THE MOORISH KING
  
  
  SALLIED FORTH TO REGAIN IT.  
    
  CHAPTER VII. HOW THE DUKE OF MEDINA SIDONIA AND
  
  
  THE CHIVALRY OF ANDALUSIA HASTENED TO THE RELIEF OF ALHAMA.  
    
  CHAPTER VIII. SEQUEL OF THE EVENTS AT 