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166 166 ACCESSION OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA. PART witnessing the demolition of their castles, the cap- ' tuie of their towns, the desertion of their vassals, and the sequestration of their revenues, were fain to purchase a pardon at the price of the most hum- ble concessions, and the forfeiture of an ample portion of domain. The castle of Zamora, expecting no further suc- cours from Portugal, speedily surrendered, and this event was soon followed by the reduction of Madrid, Baeza, Toro, and other principal cities ; so that, in little more than six months from the date of the battle, the whole kingdom, with the exception of a few insignificant posts still garrisoned by the ene- my, had acknowledged the supremacy of Ferdinand and Isabella. ^^ Soon after the victory of Toro, Ferdinand was enabled to concentrate a force amounting to fifty thousand men, for the purpose of repelling the French from Guipuscoa, from which they had already twice been driven by the intrepid natives, and whence they again retired with precipitation on receiving news of the king's approach. ^^ ■rii.^Kingof Alfonso, findino; his authority in Castile thus I'ortueal vis- ' o J rapidly melting away before the rising influence of Ferdinand and Isabella, withdrew with his virgin bride into Portugal, where he formed the resolution 26 Rades y Andrada, Las Tres dcz, Reyes Cat61icos, MS., cap. 10. Ordenes,tom. ii. fol. 79, 80. — Pul- — Oviedo, Qiiincuagenas,MS.,bat. gar, Reyes Calolicos, cap. 48-50, 1, quinc. 1, dial. 8. 55, 60. — Zurita, Analcs, lib. 19, 27 QaiHard, Rivalit^, lom. iii. l'ortU){aI vis- iluFniiice cap. 46, 48, 54, 58. — P'erreras, pp. 290-292. — Carbajal, Analcs, Hist. d'Espapnc, torn. vii. pp. 476 MS., afio 76. -478, 517-519, 546. — Bernal-