Excerpt from The Living Age: July, 1844 We must notice, however, on the part of his Moorish Majesty, an imprudence, too much in French style. His son was permitted to send one of his relatives in command of a troop of horse to look at the French. As usual, the royal blood boiled with impatience in the veins of this. Youth, and he galloped up without loss of time to ex change sabre-cuts, just as Aumale or J oinville, or any young sabreur, might. The consequence was an engagement, which the expresses of the M orn ing papers magnify into a battle, and which Lord Aberdeen poo-poos into a skirmish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.