35-3: alguna vez: sometimes. Vez is often used in the singular with plural value. Cf. rara vez, rarely.
35-4: Quién ... quién: are used as correlatives: this one ... that one. Cuál ... cuál are used in the same way. They then bear the accent— which otherwise is used only when quién and cuál are interrogative or exclamatory.
35-5: 2 de Mayo: the 2d of May, 1808, is one of the great days in the annals of Spain. Out of loyalty to the royal family, an insurrection of the populace of Madrid took place, which was put down by the French only after the most desperate and heroic resistance by the ill-armed Spaniards.
35-6: cuál: supply había contado, as after quién.
35-7: batalla de las Pirámides: won by General Napoleon Bonaparte, in 1798, in the neighborhood of the Pyramids of Ghizeh, in Egypt. The French pretended to be defending Egypt against the Turks.