Thousands, especially mothers with nursing children, infants, and old people, died by the way; many of them in the agonies of thirst.
This action against the Jews was soon followed by one against the Moors.
A pragmatica was issued at Seville, February, 1502, setting forth the obligations of the Castilians to drive the enemies of God from the land, and ordering that all unbaptized Moors in the kingdoms of Castile and Leon above the age of infancy should leave the country by the end of April.

They might sell their property, but not take away any gold or silver; they were forbidden to emigrate to the Mohammedan dominions; the penalty of disobedience was death.

Their condition was thus worse than that of the Jews, who had been permitted to go where they chose.

Such was the fiendish intolerance of the Spaniards, that they asserted the government would be justified in taking the lives of all the Moors for their shameless infidelity.
What an ungrateful return for the toleration that the Moors in their day of power had given to the Christians! No faith was kept with the victims.

Granada had surrendered under the solemn guarantee of the full enjoyment of civil and religious liberty.