Feuntarrabia was once a fortress of renown, but that was in the long ago. It was a theatre of battles without end. Here Condé was repulsed, together with the best chivalry of France, and it was then that the grateful Spanish king ordered that for evermore it should be styled "the most noble, the most leal, the most valorous of cities"--a title which does actually appear on legal documents unto this day. The Duke of Berwick, King James Stuart's gallant son, once succeeded in taking the place, and it was then so utterly dismantled by the French that it has never since been reckoned among the fortified places of Spain. But the city must indeed have felt the old war spirit stir again when it beheld those two great generals, Soult and Wellington, strive for victory before its hoary walls in 1813. Inch by inch the British had forced Napoleon's men from Spain; and here on the very frontier of France, Maréchal Soult gathered his forces for one last desperate stand. No British foot, he swore, should dare to touch the soil of France. But one chill October day, when the rain was falling on the broken, trodden vineyards, and the wind came moaning from the sullen sea, the word was given along the English ranks to pass the Bidassoa. And across the river came a line of scarlet fighting men, haggard and war-worn, many of them wounded, all of them weary. The result of that day is written on the annals of military glory as "one of the most daring exploits of military genius." Long afterwards Soult himself acknowledged it was the most splendid episode of the Peninsular War. THE END. Index Abbadie, Château d', 443 _Abelles, Seigneurs des_, 108 Accous, 333 Agde, 24, 28, 55 Agen, 52, 224 Aigues-Mortes, 55, 56, 85 _Albret Family, D'_, 232, 235, 256, 260, 261, 267, 270-274, 280, 281, 310, 340, 344, 345, 347, 350, 356-367 _Alphonse XIII_, 318, 445 Amauros, Château d', 122 Amboise, 42, 64 Amélie-les-Bains, 5, 70, 137, 138 Andorra, 47, 140, 144, 146-151, 184, 203, 304 Andorra-Viella, 148 _Arago, François_, 103 _Aragon, House of_, 96, 97, 122, 123, 128, 139, 305 Aramits, 251-252, 328, 344 _Arc, Jeanne d'_, 31 Archachon, 53 Argelès, 122-123, 318 Ariège, 9, 177 Arles-en-Provence, 111, 117 Arles-sur-Tech, 98, 138-139, 140 Armagnac, Comté d', 9, 13, 14, 84, 256, 266, 366 _Armagnac Family, D'_, 193, 256-257, 356, 365 Armendarits, 252, 253 _Arnaud, Abbé Felix_, 156-157 Arnéguy, 400 Arques, 41 Arreau, 303-304 _Arsinois, Valentine d'_, 282 Artagnan, 344 Arudy, 296 Ascarat, 400 Aspremont, Château of, 246-247 Athos, 344 Auch, 8, 225 Audaux and Its Château, 348 _Aude, Département de l'_, 9, 15, 16 Avignon, 104 Avocat-Vieux, L', 198 Axat, 152, 156, 158-159 Ax-les-Thermes, 67-68, 70, 206-209 Badefols, 76 _Baluffe, Auguste_, 152 Bagnères de Bigorre, 5, 70, 303, 321, 322, 323 Bagnères-de-Luchon (_see_ Luchon) _Baigorry, Vicomtes de_, 397-399, 400 _Balaguer, Victor_, 176 Banyuls-sur-Mer, 14, 58, 82, 128-129