Note 4 — Chapter XVIII · SECOND SIEGE OF ZARAGOZA. (continued 2)

Baron Rogniat also in his relation of the siege says, le Maréchal exigea que la ville se rendît à discretion (p. 44), and omits to say that terms of capitulation were required and granted. Baron Rogniat declares that one of his motives for publishing this relation, which he was not permitted to do during the reign of Buonaparte, was to celebrate the glory of his comrades. For a man of honour and humanity to have been in the course of military service involuntarily engaged in effecting such a conquest, would be the greatest of all misfortunes; but to look back upon it with complacency, and record it as glorious, is a crime.