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

VII. “To lynx-eyed vigilance their soundings yield.”

“By the help of Spanish fishermen he had secretly discovered three fords, practicable at low water, between the bridge of Behobia and the sea.” Napier, Hist. War in the Penins. book xxii. chap. 4.

XI. “Their cannon from the Grand Monarque on high.”

The mountain of Louis XIV., overhanging the Bidasoa at Biriatú, where the French had their principal battery.

XII. “The Lusitan battalion’s fairest flower,”

The Portuguese brigade lost one hundred and fifty men.

XIV. “The peak where stands the wreathéd cross.”

The Croix des Bouquets—a height adjoining the mountain of Louis XIV.

XV. “The British bayonet ne’er withstanding in its ire.”