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LONDON:
PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.
HISTORY
OF THE
PENINSULAR WAR.
BY ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ. LL.D.
POET LAUREATE,
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY, OF THE
ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY OF HISTORY, OF THE ROYAL
INSTITUTE OF THE NETHERLANDS, OF THE
CYMMRODORION, OF THE MASSACHUSETTS
HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ETC.
A NEW EDITION.
IN SIX VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.
MDCCCXXVIII.
Ἱστορίας γὰρ ἐὰν ἀφέλῃ τις τὸ διὰ τί, καὶ πῶς, καὶ τίνος χάρινἐπράχθη, καὶ τὸ πραχθὲν πότερα εὔλογον ἔσχε τὸ τέλος, τὸ καταλειπόμενοναὐτῆς ἀγώνισμα μὲν, μάθημα δὲ οὐ γίγνεται· καὶπαραυτίκα μὲν τέρπει, πρὸς δὲ τὸ μέλλον οὐδὲν ὠφελεῖ τὸ παράπαν.
Polybius, lib. iii. sect. 31.
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| CHAPTER IX. | |
| PAGE | |
| Preparations at Zaragoza | 1 |
| Description of that city | 3 |
| Legend of our Lady of the Pillar | 5 |
| Contempt of the French for the Zaragozans | 7 |
| The French attempt to storm the city | 8 |
| Palafox goes out to collect reinforcements | 9 |
| General Verdier joins Lefebvre with reinforcements | 11 |
| The Torrero taken | 11 |
| The French bombard the city | 11 |
| Exertions of the women | 13 |
| Countess Burita | 13 |
| Augustina Zaragoza | 14 |
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