Note 36 — Chapter IV · SEVILLE AND GRANADA (JANUARY-SEPTEMBER, 1833)
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The capture of Alhama, the key to Granada, February 28th, 1482, prepared the way for the expulsion of the Moors. Ay de mi, Alhama! (“Woe is me, Alhama!”) is the refrain of Byron’s “very mournful ballad” (Poems, vol. iv., pp. 529-34, ed. 1901).