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II. How the Brigadier Captured Saragossa
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Have I ever told you, my friends, the circumstances connected with my joining the Hussars of Conflans at the time of the siege of Saragossa and the very remarkable1 exploit which I performed in connection with the taking of that city? No? Then you have indeed something still to learn. I will tell it to you exactly as it occurred. Save for two or three men and a score or two of women, you are the first who have ever heard the story.
You must know, then, that it was in the Second Hussars—called the Hussars of Chamberan—that I had served as a lieutenant2 and as a junior captain. At the time I speak of I was only twenty-five years of age, as reckless and desperate a man as any in that great army.
It chanced that the war had come to a halt in Germany, while it was still raging in Spain, so the Emperor, wishing to reinforce the Spanish army, transferred me as senior captain to the Hussars of Conflans, which were at that time in the Fifth Army Corps3 under Marshal Lannes.
It was a long journey from Berlin to the Pyrenees.
My new regiment4 formed part of the force which, under Marshal Lannes, was then besieging5 the Spanish town of Saragossa. I turned my horse's head in that direction, therefore, and behold6 me a week or so later at the French headquarters, whence I was directed to the camp of the Hussars of Conflans.
You have read, no doubt, of this famous siege of Saragossa, and I will only say that no general could have had a harder task than that with which Marshal Lannes was confronted. The immense city was crowded with a horde7 of Spaniards—soldiers, peasants, priests—all filled with the most furious hatred8 of the French, and the most
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