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    achieved * u Spaniards ! " exclaimed Cordova , " the enemy , forgetful of their former defeats on so many celebrated occasions , and blinded by their overweening pride and confidence , are now on the heights of Arlaban , and have the presumption to defy our power ! We accept their challenge , and to satisfy

    your ardour , I am about to lead you to battle—in other words , to victory ! " * " Soldiers of the British Legion ! " re-echoed General Evans , " every word of the above address will , I know , find an echo in your generous and enthusiastic spirits . " But after all this vapouring , the " blind , " " overweening , " "

    presumptuous " enemy compelled their assailants to retreat . On leaving Vitoria General Evans , with the Legion , moved as the right division towards Guevara ; and Cordova , with Espartero , having with them the Algerine Legion besides their own troops , led on the centre and left divisions , to attack the defile of

    Arlaban . The Legion fought nobly ; drove the enemy from the village of Mendijur , and towards evening the third regiment charged them in gallant style out of a wood . The Carlists , in the mean time , retreating before Cordova and Espartero , abandoned the heights of Arlaban , in the hope of drawing the enemy

    to Salinas * where the main Carlist army , under Eguia , was stationed . That night the troops of General Evans , occupied the villages of Mendijur , Lubiano , and Arbulo ; and Cordova the heights of Arlaban . Early the next morning , however , the Carlists , being reinforced , Villareal attacked the Algerine Legion on the left , Gonia on the right , Las Vacas in the centre , and they were then compelled to retreat . The Commander-in-Chief , Cordova , forwarded no intimation to General Evans of this retrograde movement , but left him with the few British auxiliaries that were under his command , opposed to the whole

    Carlist army ! Ignorant of what had occurred , they remained stationary among the mountains , bivouacking in the snow three days and ni g hts , suffering severely from the intensity of the weather . The patience of General Evans being at length exhausted , he proceeded , accompanied by his staff , at considerable personal risk , in search of Cordova , when the first

    Chriatino troops they encountered apprized him , to his astonishment , that the General-in-Chief had withdrawn his army , and was returned to his own quarters , where he then actually was , warming his feet very comfortably over a braziero . Immediately General Evans returned to his troops , and knowing the imminent danger that surrounded them , directed them after

    * Spanish oratory is noted for its Bombaatea Furioto style . On a former ocoa sion , when about to attack Arlaban , Cordova , addressing his troops , said— * Over mountains higher than where the eagles soar ; above the May-snows have our soldiers gone ! " &o . ; which flight of eloquence got him the title of Dmque dt fat Ah * drm $ — Duke of Sky-larks !

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    The Civil War in Spain . 2 QI

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 201, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/11/