Note A — INTRODUCTION.
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Napier begins his account thus: “Renewed Siege of San Sebastian.—Villatte’s demonstration against Longa on the 28th of July had caused the ships laden with the battering-trains to put to sea, but on the 5th of August the guns were re-landed and the works against the fortress resumed,” &c.—Hist. War in the Penins. book xxii. chap. 1.