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The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Art of weeping. (search)
h infantry and 3,000 cavalry. Sixteen thousand other Spanish troops were to occupy-Portugal, and 40,000 more French troops were to be assembled at Bayonne, to march also to Portugal, in case those already there were attacked by the English. By these means Napoleon introduced a large army into the very heart of Spain. He then pretended that it was necessary, for the security of his troops, that he should possess certain fortresses, and accordingly, Pampeluna, St. Sebastian, Fegueras, and Barcelona, were given up to him, thus placing the passes of the Pyrenees in his power, and rendering it easy for him to pour in any number of troops he might wish from France. And under the pretence of fulfilling the treaty of partition, he did pour in enormous masses. Between the 19th of October, 1807, and the18th of January, 1808--three months--70,000 French infantry and 10,000 cavalry entered through the pass of Irunalone. It was at this time that the tumult at Aranjuez, already alluded to, to