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Excerpt from The Bivouac, or Stories of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2 of 2
Of all the Guerilla leaders the two Minas were the most remarkable for their daring, their talents, and their successes. The younger, Xavier, had a short career, but nothing could be more chivalrous and ro mantic than many of the incidents that marked it. His band amounted to a thousand, and 'with this force be kept Navarre, Biscay, and Aragon, in confusion; ia tercepted convoys, levied contributions, plundered the custom-houses, and harassed the enemy incessantly. The villages were obliged to furnish rations for his tr00ps, and the French convoys supplied him with money and ammunition. His escapes were often mar vellous. He swam ?ooded rivers deemed impassable, and climbed precipices hitherto untraversed by a human tbot. Near Estella he was forced by numbers to take refuge on a lofty rock; the only accessible side he do fended till nightfall, when lowering himself and follow ers by a rope, he brought his party off with scarcely the loss of a man.
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