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Important as the battle of Baylen was in its direct and immediate consequences to the Spaniards, their cause derived greater celebrity and more permanent strength from the defence of Zaragoza.
Important as the battle of Baylen was in its direct and immediate consequences to the Spaniards, their cause derived greater celebrity and more permanent strength from the defen...
9. CHAPTER X.While these events were passing in Spain, Portugal also was convulsed by this political ♦AN AGENT SENT FROM BADAJOZ TO THE SPANIARDS AT LISBON.♦ earthquake. The first insurrecti...
10. did. A meeting of the people was then held, at which the magistratesProceedings equally outrageous, and of more perilous tendency, occurred in the town of Arcos de Val de Vez. The bells in that town and in the surrounding villages rung the alarm...
11. CHAPTER XI.These transactions in Spain and Portugal excited the deepest interest in the English people; not so much for the hope, which had thus unexpectedly arisen, of advantages to Engla...
12. CHAPTER XII.When Castaños was informed of Sir Hew Dalrymple’s appointment to the command of the British army, he declared that he regarded this nomination as the most fortunate event of his...
13. CHAPTER XIII.It had always been Buonaparte’s system, and therein it was that the strength and wisdom of his policy consisted, to ensure success, as far as the end can be rendered certain by...
14. CHAPTER XIV.An old prophecy was at this time circulated in Paris, importing that the disasters which would lead to the overthrow of the French empire were to originate in Spain. It had prob...
15. CHAPTER XV.In all the bulletins and proclamations of Buonaparte the English were held up to the Spaniards for indignation and contempt: they were a people, he said, who fomented war every...