Show extraordinary FIGHT between elive ELITE HORSES southey sout Soul hey in his history of the peninsular war relates the following two of the tile spanish regiments which hid had been quart quat red redin in eunen were cavalry mounted on nine tine black iong long tailed Ana lutian herda harva it was im practicable impracticable to bring off these horses herpes about 1100 in number and romano was not a man who could order them to be destroyed he was fond of horses him himself seit and knew that every man was attached to the want leat which had carried hi him in so far and so faithfully their bridles bridled ime vwe therefore taken alien off ad aed they were turned loose upon the mach beach A scene ensued such as probably never before was wf witnessed the They y were sensible that hat hal they w were ret no longer under any aby restraint tuman of luman fruma n power A general conflict ensued in gvoich retaining the d discipline they had learnett learne tK they chark chirk ed each other in ili squadrons ot of engg twelve together 9 e 1 her tile tiie theo then n closely eng engaged raged atrilb lB with twin fore feet and biting and t tearing earing baeth other fiyut the most ferocious rage and trampling over those who wem were beaten down dowa till tb the shore in the course courso of an hour was strewn wilh with the tb ded eded dod and disabled part of them had been set fre free e on I 1 ground at a distance they no sooner heard d the ape roar of bitti baill than they came thundering dow dows over the intermediate hedges and catching the contagious madness mad mhd ness nees plunged clato the fight with equal fury sublime agthe as the scene seene wasu was wes to toro torb a horrible to be long contemplated and roa Koa borno saito in werely mercy gave orders to dess deff destroy troy them but it ww was found too dangerous to attempt this and ard after the lawt boat had quitted the beech the few homes hows abat tb remained were estill still seen reen engaged in the dread ful work of mutual destruction lork lorl |