Crossword-Solution: ALCANIZ 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

And my Cid chose out two hundred horsemen and went out by night, and fell upon the lands of Alcaniz and brought away great booty.

Suchet, recognising the importance of utilising to the full the élan which the French soldier always derives from the sense of attacking, advanced to meet him near Alcaniz, but Blake easily beat off the French attack.

They were continuously harassed by swarms of guerrillas; the marches were slow and short; the wounded were carried in hundreds on doors and window-shutters; and when, five days later, the army reached Alcaniz, it was found that it brought down fifteen hundred wounded in addition to the dead left behind.

They could see no one on the road, and lay down in shelter with the firm belief that they should get to Alcaniz the next night.

That evening they started again, and, taking to the road, kept on steadily all night, and to their satisfaction saw, when morning dawned, the town of Alcaniz but a mile away.