The starving troops have resisted heroically
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The aftermath of the battle of Vitoria (21 June 1813), in which
the French army under Joseph Bonaparte collapsed & fled from the
field:
'As for Joseph he scarcely looked back before he reached the walls
of Pamplona in Navarre. [The French troops were still occupying
the city, but w/ an inadequate food supply]
Joseph was admitted into its walls; but the [French] fugitives from
Vittoria were refused an entrance; and when they attempted to scale
the walls they were fired upon by their own countrymen, as if they
had been mortal foes; and they were compelled to continue their
flight across the Pyrenees towards France.'
(From The History of England, Vol. III, Ch. XXIX, by Edward Henry
Nolan, Edward Farr.)
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Authors: ag