1476, Battle of Toro

The Battle of Toro was a royal battle,
                          [from the War of the Castilian Succession,
and it could, without doubt,
             [be characterized as one leaving a great impression.

Fought on the first of March,

                          one thousand four hundred and seventy-six,

with a partial participation of citizens,

                                                  armed with stones and sticks,

which helped either the Catholic Monarch's Castilian troops,

                                          [or the Portuguese-Castilian forces of Afonso the fifth.

 

From this point onward, no one knows what was the truth and what was a lie,
                                                                              [what is reality and what is a myth.

The battle had an inconclusive military outcome,
                                                       [as both sides claimed victory,

Each ruler created and wrote the ending that best suited their history!!

As noted by academic António Serrano:
              [“From all of this it can be deduced, that the battle was inconclusive,
but Isabella and Ferdinand made it fly with wings of victory,
allusive and collusive.

Actually, this battle transformed history, since the 1st of March 1476,
Isabella and Ferdinand began their rule of Spain's throne,
                                                                [an issue perhaps for skeptics. 

The inconclusive wings of the battle,
became the secure and powerful wings of San Juan's eagle,
the commemorative temple of the battle of Toro,
a story from which a poet can be fascinated, inveigled and inveigle... _______________________________________________________

to be continued

" IT COULD BE OTHERWISE in verse"
Texts and Narration: Odysseus Heavilayias - ROTTERDAM //
Language adjustments and text adaptation: Kellene G Safis - CHICAGO//
Digital adaptation and text editing: Cathy Rapakoulia Mataraga - PIRAEUS//
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