baights

Updated: May 23, 2025

Here we touch again the line of that masterly retreat of Soult's before the superior forces of Wellington, to which Napier has done such ample and deserved justice. Boes, and the High Church of Baights, the scene of the terrible battle of Orthez. The Roman camp, then 'open and grassy, with a few trees, says Napier, is now covered with vineyards.

Charles Kingsley - Prose Idylls, New and Old