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Munuza and another
Later on, Munuza would try to do the same at another mountain post in the Pyrenees, where he rebelled against his Cordoban Arab superiors.
However, Munuza was defeated by a Umayyad military expedition ( 731 ) and another period of Muslim expansion commenced.

Munuza and force
* 722-King Pelayo defeats a large force sent by Emir Munuza to annihilate him at the Battle of Covadonga in Alcama.

Munuza and what
In order to help secure his borders against the Umayyads, he married his daughter, probably named Lampegia, to the Muslim Berber rebel lord Uthman ibn Naissa, called " Munuza " by the Franks, the deputy governor of what would later become Catalonia.

Munuza and was
Again Pelagius won, and Munuza was killed in the fighting.
In the latter city he placed a small Berber detachment under a governor, Munuza, whose mission was to consolidate Muslim control over Asturias.
In 731, the Berber lord of the region of Cerdagne Uthman ibn Naissa, called " Munuza " by the Franks, was an ally of the Duke of Aquitaine Odo the Great after he revolted against Cordova, but the rebel lord was defeated and killed by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, so opening Aquitaine to the Umayyads.
Peace was signed in 730 between the victor at Toulouse, the Duke of Aquitaine, and ' Uthman ibn Naissa ( Munuza ), a Berber rebel lord stationed in Cerdanya ( maybe current day Catalonia ), a region that could act as a buffer state against Umayyad expansionism.
The peace treaty was sealed with the marriage of the Duke ’ s daughter to Munuza.
Uthman ibn Naissa better known as Munuza was the Moorish governor of northern Iberia ( including the region of Asturias but not Cantabria in modern Spain ) in the early 8th century.

Munuza and .
According to the late tradition, Munuza, the Berber governor of Iegione ( either Gijón or León ), became attracted to Pelagius ' sister and sent word to Tariq ibn Ziyad, who ordered him to capture Pelagius and send him to Córdoba.
Eventually, he managed to expel a provincial governor named Munuza from Asturias.
In 722, forces commanded by the Umayyad commanders Al Qama and Munuza, accompanied by Bishop Oppas of Seville, brother of the former Visigothic King Witiza, were sent to Asturias.
The leader of the Astures, whose origin is debated by historians, had at that time his home in Bres ( in the district of Piloña ) and Munuza sent his troops there under officer Al-Qama.
Munuza, feeling isolated in a region increasingly hostile, decided to abandon Gijon and headed for the Plateau ( Meseta ) through the Mesa Trail.
Odo married his daughter to Munuza, and Arab raids in Aquitaine temporarily ended, thus enabling Odo to focus on the northern threat.
However, in 731 Munuza rebelled against the new wali of al-Andalus, Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi.
Abd al-Rahman soon defeated Munuza, and in order to punish Duke Odo for his alliance with Munuza he launched a raid in Aquitaine.
Odo seems to have disbanded some of his troops after the peace signed with Munuza, which could account for his failure to stop Abd al-Rahman.
After the loss of a Muslim garrison out on a punitive expedition, Munuza took undisputed control of the Asturian coastal region, but kept court in the western districts closer to dominated and occupied Galicia.

learning and defeat
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King George III wrote ( well before learning of Cornwallis's surrender ) that " after the knowledge of the defeat of our fleet [...] I nearly think the empire ruined.
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Upon learning of this event, Tépetl immediately went to look for his beloved and defeat the terrible Sangangüey.
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Only by learning to work together as a team did they escape and eventually defeat Snow Cat.

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