🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 2

Wherever he appeared the towns, for the most part, sent forth some of their principal inhabitants to proffer a surrender; for they were destitute of fortifications, and their fighting men had perished in battle.

Who acts: terror, most part, towns, fighting men · What happens: appear, send, proffer, be, perish · To what, where: towns, some, surrender, battle

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