had no longer anything left in Spain but Aragon and Catalonia.

The French garrisons, set free by the evacuation of Italy, went to the aid of the Spaniards.

"Your enemies ought not to hope for success," wrote Louis XIV.

to his grandson, "since their progress has served only to bring out the courage and fidelity of a nation always equally brave and firmly attached to its masters.

I am told that your people cannot be distinguished from regular troops.