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d — her docks and arsenals were rotting — her commerce was gone — her army had become an undisciplined rabble — she lay, apparently, helpless, cursed with the fatal gift of beauty, a temptation to the spoiler, without the strength to resist his enterprises Such was Spain, when her condition aroused the cupidity of the first Napoleon, and lured him on to destruction. There is scarcely a record, in all history, of a more terrible invasion than that which swept over Spain in the months of November and December, 1808. The whole Spanish army scarcely amounted to 150,000 men. They were ill disciplined, ill armed, turbulent, factious even mutinous. They paid but a very slender obedience to their officers, and these officers were little better than their men. In strict accordance with their prominent national characteristics, they were full of presumption, and constantly spoke of driving the French back to Paris, following on their footsteps, and dethroning the Emperor. Against this r