The Battle Of Eleven Hundred Horses

Twoof theSpanish) regiments which had been qnartered n Fvnen were cavalry, mounted on fine, black, tjailed, Andaiusian horeea. It was impracticable to bring off tht-se horses, abont 1100 in number, nnd Romana wasr not a man who could order them to bé '! destroyen. He was fond of horsps bimself. and knew that every man was attached to the beast which had carried bim so far and so faithfully. Their bridles were tnken off, aud tbcy were turned loose upon thebeoch. ■ A' scche enstied, such as was never before witnessed. They were sensible that they were no longpr under any restraint of human power. A general conflict en'sued, in whicli,retaining the discipline they bod learnt, they charged oacli ollier in squadrons of ten or twenty toether, thon closely engaged striking with their fore feet, and bitirig and tearinor ench other with the most ferocious rage, and tram pling over thoee which were bea ten down, till the siiore, in the conrse of u quarterof an hour, was strewn with dead and disabled. Part of them had been set free on a rising ground, at a distance: they no sooner hëard the rcRr of the baltle. thnn tlioy carne thundering down over the intermcdiate hedge?, and catching the contagión ruadiipss, nlung edinto the fight with fury. Sublime as the scène was, it was too horrible lo be long contemplated, and Romana, in tnercy, gave ortlers for destroving them; bat it wasfound too nnrrerons to attempt this; and after the last ixtatB quitted the bench, the few horses thát remained were seen still engaged in the