SARAGOSSA
Saragossa, which has been one of the fiercest storm centres in Spain, has had a long experience of fighting before and since the days when Charlemagne sat down before it. Its worst extremity was in the Peninsular War, when, it lost 50,000 inhabitants through famine and disease in the siege of 1807-8. The name is what the Spanish tongue has made of the Roman Caesarea Augusta; hut the passions of mankind seem to have undergone less change in these 2,000 years.— ‘ Observer.’
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Evening Star, Issue 22454, 26 September 1936, Page 2
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83SARAGOSSA Evening Star, Issue 22454, 26 September 1936, Page 2
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