_ 459 _ The king became really sad at this, and he still wished to discuss what he had earlier advised, but there were so many people near at hand who swamped Dom Alvaro with entreaties that he ordered the castle to be bombarded until a large breach appeared in it. Then the Moors came with another message, asking Dom Alvaro to allow them to leave just with their wives and children and nothing else. He agreed to this because the king pleaded with him, wishing to avoid danger to the men. However, the young men importuned him with fresh entreaties, and the person who brought the second message was also made captive just like the woman, and another one who brought a third message was also detained. When this happened, the Moors, whose compliance and humility was transformed into anger and fury, began to fire numerous musket volleys, with which they wounded a great number of our men. Then Dom Alvaro, with the many ladders that he had ordered to be brought from the caravel, attacked the castle by scaling it, an action in which our troops encountered such stiff resistence that more than twenty of the enemy were killed before they could enter. But when they did enter, all were put to the sword with no one remaining alive. There was not a single person
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