 The armistice, the negotiations, the convention itself, and the execution of its provisions, were all commenced, conducted, and concluded, at the distance of thirty miles from Cintra, with which place they had not the slightest connection, political,...  Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Spain and Portugal - Page 143by Richard Stephen Charnock - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Military art and science - 1904 - 770 pages
...military, or local. Yet Lord Byron," he goes on to remark, " has sung that the Convention was signed in the Marquis of Marialva's house at Cintra ; and the...upon the poet's discovery, detected the stains of ink spilt by Junot upon the occasion." It would be natural to suppose that a writer who scoffed at... | |
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...thirty miles from that place : — "Yet Lord Byron has gravely sung that the con vention was signed in the Marquis of Marialva's house at Cintra, and the...of the ' Diary of an Invalid,' improving upon the j>oet's discovery, detected the stains of ink spilt by Junot upon the occasion." Who was the author... | |
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