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His suspicions were aroused, and he reported the matter to the captain, who, however, made light of it, and said that Almanza had told him that Foster and Ryan had been shipmates with him on a Sydney barque some years before, and that it was only natural that Almanza would relax discipline a little, and condescend to chat for a few minutes with men who had sailed with him previously.
"Indeed!" said Frewen, with an air of concern, instantly surmising that the injured man was either Almanza or the Chileno sailor whom Villari had shot. "Is he getting on all right?" "Not at all well and unfortunately I do not know anything about a fractured collar-bone." Frewen replied, with perfect truth, that he had seen several broken collar-bones. Perhaps he might be of assistance.
The Archduke Charles lands in Spain with a small English army under Lord Peterborough, who takes Barcelona. Marlborough's victory at Ramilies. The English army in Spain is defeated at the battle of Almanza. Marlborough's victory at Oudenarde. "Dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede, Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to combat and to bleed.
"The two Greeks who, by the way, called themselves and shipped under the English names of John Foster and James Ryan the Levantine breed do that trick very often were in Almanza's watch, as were six of the Chilenos; and the mate one night, coming on deck when it was his watch below, was surprised to find Almanza and the two Greeks engaged in an earnest conversation.
Never, throughout the course of her chequered career, had Madame des Ursins shown more activity than during the six months which intervened between the return of the Court to Madrid and the battle of Almanza. Her position was as delicate as it was perilous. It was necessary to stigmatise flagrant defections, but without driving anyone altogether to desperation.
His surmise he found was correct, for at the end of a quarter of an hour, Ryan, who had been giving Almansa all the news in the interval, appeared and asked him to come below and see the chief officer. He led the way below, and entering the officer's cabin, said "Here is the gentleman from the shore, Mr. Almanza. Let him see your hurt."
I met some dragoons, and enlisted in the Almanza regiment of cavalry. Soon I became a corporal, and they were under promise to make me sergeant when, to my misfortune, I was put on guard at the tobacco factory at Seville. "I was young then, and I was always thinking of my native country, and was afraid of the Andalusian young women and their jesting ways.
Spain attracted to her standard the Irish of the north-west, the O'Donnells, the O'Reillys, and O'Garas, whose regiments, during more than one reign, continued to be known by flames of Ulster origin. In 1707, the great battle of Almanza, which decided the Spanish succession, was determined by O'Mahony's foot and Fitzjames's Irish horse.
The lady, however, recovering herself after a little space, said to her husband with a sigh, 'My dear, misfortunes never come single. My friend, I found, acted but an under-part at his table, and being a man of more good-nature than understanding, thinks himself obliged to fall in with all the passions and humours of his yoke-fellow: 'Do you remember, child, says she, 'that the pigeon-house fell the very afternoon that our careless wench spilt the salt upon the table? 'Yes, says he, 'my dear, and the next post brought us an account of the battle of Almanza.
Meanwhile, the great struggle abroad went steadily against France, though its progress was varied with striking alternations of success. France rose indeed with singular rapidity from the crushing blow of Ramillies. Spain was recovered for Philip in 1707 by a victory of Marshal Berwick at Almanza.
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