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A volunteer in the African war of 1859, he won a cross for gallantry in battle, and his account of the war brought him sudden fame as a writer. In his earlier novels Alarcón was fond of sensation, as young writers are wont to be.
Quedaron perdidos del todo, y escaparon poquísimos del cuchillo y prosigue: Viri in excursionibus, & praelijs ad quinquaginta millia cæsi fuere: fame, & morbis, & igne ingens multitudo absumpta est: Perecieron al pie de cincuenta mil hombres en las refriegas y una grandiosa multitud consumió la hambre, la enfermedad o el fuego. Y San Jerónimo comentando a Zacarías c.
II, añade: Post ultimam eversionem, quan sustinuerunt ab Adriano, multa millia hominum venundata sint & quae vendi non potuerint, traslata in Egiptum, & tam naufragio, & fame quam gentium cœde truncata.
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