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Excerpt from The Military Exploits, Etc, Etc, of Don Juan Martin Diez: The Empecinado The public papers having scarcely announced any of 7 the services of Don Juan Martin Die'z, the Empe einado, I having been an eye-witness of them should be' ungrateful to my country if I withheld from her the recital of his brilliant actions with the enemy, and his exemplary conduct as a patriot, both of which are calculated to animate and gra tify every Spaniard, and to call forth the admiration of every foreigner. I shall report them without the slightest adulation towards Don Juan Martin, and without the mostremote intention of creating jea lousy by drawing comparisons be tween the conduct of this most dis tinguished man and any other of the, highly meritorious Spaniards who, following his example, took up arms in defence of their king, their country, their religion, and their families. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.