Note 115 — SECTION III: CHAPTER II
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That Palafox and those about him despaired of the defence is honestly confessed in the Marquis de Lazan’s Campaña del verano de 1808. He and his brother ‘had not believed that an open town defended by untrained peasants could defend itself,’ and the news of Lefebvre’s first repulse astonished as much as it pleased them.