Robert Southey

CONTENTS.

HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR.

CHAPTER XXIV.

CHAPTER XXV.

CHAPTER XXVI. SIEGE OF GERONA.

CHAPTER XXVII. PROCEEDINGS IN FRANCE AND IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FRENCH ENTER ANDALUSIA. DISSOLUTION OF THE

CHAPTER XXIX.

CHAPTER XXX. SIEGE OF HOSTALRICH. ATTEMPT UPON VALENCIA. CAPTURE OF LERIDA. OPERATIONS BEFORE CADIZ.

CHAPTER XXXI. ASTORGA TAKEN BY THE FRENCH. SIEGE AND FALL OF CIUDAD RODRIGO.

CHAPTER XXXII.

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HISTORY
OF THE
PENINSULAR WAR.

G. WOODFALL, ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET, LONDON.

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. IV.

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.