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The sack of Mesopotamia.
What follows is dedicated to a forgotten and lowly Spanish soldier who risked his life to save the Alhambra. The year was 1812, when Napoleonic troops occupying Grenada evacuated the Alhambra, the noble hilltop palace they had used as a fort. Having failed to reform an incorrigible people, and having already demolished two of the Alhambra's towers, the French commander ordered the palace's demolition. Explosives were planted, and one of Islam's architectural jewels would ...
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