The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . as to be ruled by amember of the Bonaparte family, which meant Napoleonhimself. But the emperor forgot that no people likes to be ruledby a foreigner. Above all others, the Spaniards, who area high-spirited people, deeply attached to their own coun-try, were sure to rebel. They despised Charles and Ferdi-nand ; but, after all, these were Spaniards, and they thoughtthe worst Spaniard had a better right to govern Spain thanthe best Frenchman. All over Spain, from the Pyreneesto the M
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . as to be ruled by amember of the Bonaparte family, which meant Napoleonhimself. But the emperor forgot that no people likes to be ruledby a foreigner. Above all others, the Spaniards, who area high-spirited people, deeply attached to their own coun-try, were sure to rebel. They despised Charles and Ferdi-nand ; but, after all, these were Spaniards, and they thoughtthe worst Spaniard had a better right to govern Spain thanthe best Frenchman. All over Spain, from the Pyreneesto the Mediterranean, the people rose, with such poor armsand such poor leaders as they could get, and swore on theircrucifixes that they would fight the French as long as theirancestors had fought the Moors. And they got help. Onthe 85th of October, 1808^ an English army, under the com 1807-1813] 353 mand of a general of whom you will hear more—he wasthen Sir Arthur Wellesley—landed at Oporto in Spanish and Portuguese then began to fight in ear-nest. Junots army was forced to surrender. And the FJT. PORT OF HAVRE French army, at Baylen, was attacked, beaten, and manyof the prisoners murdered. Such was the rage of the Span-iards, that when the French General Dupont was marchingon Cordova he came across the bodies of two hundredFrenchmen—some hanged or crucified on trees, some whohad been half buried alive, some sawn in two betweenplanks. Four hundred French merchants at Valencia wereslaughtered by a mob. When Spaniards blood is rousedthey are very cruel. All over Spain a new catechism was scattered ; I giveyou a short extract: Q. Child, what art thou ?23 354 [ISOY-ISIS A. A Spaniard, by the grace of God. Q. Who is our enemy ? A. The Emperor of the French. Q. What is the Emperor of the French ? A. A wicked being, the source of all evils, and the cen-tre of all vice. Q. How many natures has he ? A. Two, the human and the diabolical. Q. What are the French ? A. Apostate
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