Ἀλλ’ ἐνθάδ’, ἐν Τροίᾳ τ’, ἐλευθέραν φύσιν Παρέχων, Ἄρη, τὸ κατ’ ἐμὲ, κοσμήσω δορί. Eurip. _Iphig. in Aul._ 930. “_Achil._ Both here and in Troy, displaying a frank mind, as far as in me lies, I will illustrate Mars in battle.” XX. --“Nial led ’mid War’s alarms A file of Rifles.” --Sævam Militiam puer, et Cantabrica bella tulisti Sub Duce. Horat. _Epist._ i. 18. XXI. “The Spaniards oft declared he was a girl.” Era Medoro un mozo de veinte años, Ensortijado el pelo, y rubio el bozo, De mediana estatura, y de ojos graves, Graves mirados, y en mirar suaves. Lope de Vega, _Angelica_, iii. XXVII. “Till rapid Soult,” &c. Rapidity of conception and execution were marked features in Marshal Soult’s military character. The decree by which Napoléon appointed him his Lieutenant in Spain was issued at Dresden on the 1st July, 1813, ten days after the battle of Vittoria. On the eleventh day he was in the midst of the army in Spain! “The 12th, Soult, travelling with surprising expedition, assumed the command of the armies of the ‘north,’ the ‘centre,’ and the ‘south,’ now reorganized in one body called ‘the Army of Spain.’ And he had secret orders to put Joseph forcibly aside if necessary, but that monarch voluntarily retired from the army.” Napier, _Hist. War in the Penins._ book xxi. chap. 4. “Marshal Soult was one of the few men whose indefatigable energy rendered them worthy lieutenants of the emperor; and with singular zeal, vigour, and ability he now served.”--_Ibid._ “Such was Soult’s activity that on the 16th all the combinations for a gigantic offensive movement were digested.”--_Ibid._ XXIX. “His rugged spine full many a peak doth bear, His ribs, huge ridges, part on either hand.” This is the actual formation of the Pyrenees. A great spinal ridge runs diagonally across this entire mountain tract, trending westward. From this spine sierras shoot forth on both sides, and the communications between the valleys formed by these ridges pass over breaks in the sierras, called _puertos_ by the Spaniards, and _cols_ by the French. XXXI. “What clattering steed doth gallop fleet as air.”