. Battles of the nineteenth century . t them : one of them, DonnaJuana Maria de los Dolores de Leon, afterwardsmarried her protector, who became Sir HarrySmith, of Aliwal fame, and was long a prominentfigure in English society—a curious instance ofthe romance of war. We took the colours of the garrison andthe Hesse-Darmstadt, but there were no eaglesin the town. The first man to die at the SantaMaria was a Portuguese grenadier, and therewas a storj current in the army that Jose deCastro, bugle-boy of the 7th Ca^adores, hadsounded the French recall at a criticalmoment, for which he received a h
. Battles of the nineteenth century . t them : one of them, DonnaJuana Maria de los Dolores de Leon, afterwardsmarried her protector, who became Sir HarrySmith, of Aliwal fame, and was long a prominentfigure in English society—a curious instance ofthe romance of war. We took the colours of the garrison andthe Hesse-Darmstadt, but there were no eaglesin the town. The first man to die at the SantaMaria was a Portuguese grenadier, and therewas a storj current in the army that Jose deCastro, bugle-boy of the 7th Ca^adores, hadsounded the French recall at a criticalmoment, for which he received a hundredguineas from the Earl of Wellington : certain itis that when a very old man, gaining a bareliving by teaching the cornet in the town ofGolega, he was still petitioning the PortugueseGovernment for a pension. Five generals wounded, five thousand officersand men fallen during the siege—that is thestory of Badajoz. And when Wellington stoodin the breach and looked around him, sternSpartan though he was, he burst into tears. 2f. £ ¥ T the invitation of the newly-created^^\ Repubhc of Chili, Admiral Thomas1 -IL Cochrane, tenth Earl of Dundonald,sailed from England in the monthof August, 1818, in the Rose, merchantman,to organise and take supreme command ofthe Chilian navy. With him he took, be-sides his wife and two children, English navalofficers upon whom he could rely in thearduous fighting he was soon to engage inagainst the superior armaments of Spain. Helanded on November 28th at Valparaiso, whitherGeneral OHiggins, Supreme Director of theChilian Government, had come to receive reception was so warm both at Valparaisoand at Santiago, the capital, and the continua-tion of proposed festivities in his honourthreatened to be so prolonged, that he had toremind his Excellency OHiggins that he hadcome to Chili to fight, and not to feast. Preparations were accordingly pushed for-ward to get such ships of war as the Chilianspossessed into some kind of fighting order
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