Author: Edward Sylvester Ellis

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-21

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9780265562734

Excerpt from The Story of the Greatest Nations, Vol. 56: With One Thousand of the World's Famous Events Portrayed in Word and Picture The loyal and patriotic Spaniards rose in desperate; revolt against the French ruler thus thrust upon them. They had no king and no generals, no funds and moiregular army. But every city became a center of defiant resistance, a stronghold which the French must besiege or storm. The defense of Sara gossa, the ancient capital of Aragon, is particularly celebrated. Its citizens were chiefly under the lead of'their priests, but they selected Parafoii a member of the old nobility as their nominal head, and made him captain general of Aragon. When the city was attacked, the priests preached the duty of resistance and the people fought in every street. For two months they held back the French troops and finally drove them from the city. A second-siege and assault the following winter proved more successful; but the city was not finally captured until sixty thousand of its citizens had perished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.