Transcriber’s Note Sidenotes are shown in UPPER-CASE and enclosed in ♦DIAMOND SYMBOLS♦; italic text is enclosed in _underscores_. Other notes will be found at the end of this eBook. HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR. LONDON: PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS. HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR. “Unto thee “Let thine own times as an old story be.” DONNE. 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 χάριν ἐπράχθη, καὶ τὸ πραχθὲν πότερα εὔλογον ἔσχε τὸ τέλος, τὸ καταλειπόμενον αὐτῆς ἀγώνισμα μὲν, μάθημα δὲ οὐ γίγνεται· καὶ παραυτίκα μὲν τέρπει, πρὸς δὲ τὸ μέλλον οὐδὲν ὠφελεῖ τὸ παράπαν. POLYBIUS, lib. iii. sect. 31. CONTENTS. 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 The French again repulsed in an attempt to take the city by storm 15 They invest the city 16 They form a bridge over the Ebro 17 Distress of the inhabitants 17 Foundling Hospital burnt 18 Convent of St. Engracia 19 The Hospital set on fire 24 War in the streets 25 Santiago Sass 26 Number of the dead 28 Retreat of the enemy 29 CHAPTER X.