Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War / With impressions from recent visits to the battle-grounds, and copious historical and illustrative notes

by T. M. Hughes

The firelock and its fixéd bayonet form

Against the unarméd rifle surer brand,

And shrill the Frenchmen cried as backward drew the band.

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But Nial with his sword the bayonet matched,

And as he fought upon the rocky verge

That bounds the platform, he a firelock snatched

From forth a Frenchman’s hands whom he did urge

At swordpoint till he slew him. While the surge