"SETTING SPURS TO THEIR HORSES, THE FOUR MEN DASHED FORWARD"

PREFACE

The story of the doings of the British Legion under Sir deLacy Evans in Spain is but little known. The expedition wasa failure, and that from no want of heroic courage on the partof the soldiers, but from the most scandalous neglect andill-treatment by the Government of Queen Christina. So grosswas this neglect that within six months of their arrival in thePeninsula nearly five thousand, that is to say half the Legion,had either died from want, privation, or fever in the hospitalsof Vittoria, or were invalided home. The remainder, althoughill-fed, ill-clothed, and with their pay nine months in arrear,showed themselves worthy of the best traditions of the Britisharmy, and it was only at the end of their two years' engagementthat, finding all attempts to obtain fair treatment fromthe Government unavailing, they took their discharge andreturned home.

The history of their doings as described in the followingstory is largely founded on a pamphlet by Alex. Somerville,a man of genius who enlisted in the Legion; and the eventssubsequent to its disbandment are taken from the work ofMajor Duncan, one of the Commissioners appointed by theBritish Government to endeavour to see that the conditionsof a convention entered into by our Government and theleaders of the contending parties in Spain were duly observed--aconvention, however, that had very small influence inchecking the atrocities committed by both combatants.

G. A. HENTY.

CONTENTS

CHAP.

1. ENLISTED

2. IN SPAIN

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