By deft cutting through cross streets Chacon got between the two bodies of madmen, and pleaded the indignity to Spain and the violation of neutral ground.

The English must fight him before they fought the French.

They would beat him: but as soon as the first shot was fired, the French would attack them likewise, and both parties alike would be massacred in the streets.
The hot Welsh blood cooled down before reason, and courage.

Vaughan saluted Chacon; and marched back, hooted by the Republicans, who nevertheless kept at a safe distance.

The French hunted every English and Irish person out of the town, some escaping barely with their lives.