Transcriber’s note

• Obvious printer errors have been silently corrected.
• Original spelling was kept, but variant spellings were made consistent when a predominant usage was found.
• To aid referencing places and names in present-day maps and documents, outdated and current spellings of some proper names follow:

  Alariz,	now Allariz,
  Albuquerque,	now Alburquerque,
  Alemtejo,	now Alentejo,
  Aljafferia,	now Aljafería,
  Almanza,	now Almansa,
  Arens de Mar,	now Arenys de Mar,
  Arzobispo,	now El Puente del Arzobispo,
  Ballasteros,	now Ballesteros,
  Baylen,	now Bailén,
  Busaco,	now Buçaco,
  Cacabellos,	now Cacabelos,
  Cangas de Oñis,	now Cangas de Onís,
  Campo Saucos,	now Camposancos
  Cardadeu,	now Cardedeu,
  Cascaes,	now Cascais,
  Cette,	now Sète,
  Cevolla,	now Cebolla,
  Compostella,	now Compostela,
  Cordova,	now Córdoba,
  Corunna,	now La Coruña,
  Deleytosa,	now Deleitosa,
  Despeña Perros,	now Despeñaperros,
  El Moral,	now Moral de Calatrava,
  Estremadura,	now Extremadura (for Spain), and Estremadura (for Portugal),
  Florida Blanca,	now Floridablanca,
  Fuentedueñas,	now Fuentidueña de Tajo,
  Giguela (river),	now Gigüela,
  Grijon,	now Grijó,
  Guimaraens,	now Guimarães,
  Huerba (river),	now Huerva,
  La Bispal,	now La Bisbal,
  La Gudina,	now La Gudiña,
  Lanhozo,	now Lanhoso,
  Loxa,	now Loja,
  Majorca,	now Mallorca,
  Meza de Ibor,	now Mesas de Ibor,
  Mondonedo,	now Mondoñedo,
  Monmalo,	now Montmeló,
  Monterey,	now Monterrey,
  Osoño,	now Villardevós (Osoño),
  Pampeluna,	now Pamplona,
  Passo d’Arcos,	now Paço de Arcos
  Pillar,	now Pilar,
  Riva de Sella,	now Ribadesella,
  San Boy,	now Sant Boi de Llobregat,
  San Culgat,	now Sant Cugat del Vallés,
  San Per,	now Samper de Calanda,
  Saragossa,	now Zaragoza,
  Sarreal,	now Sarral,
  Senabria,	now Sanabria,
  Tajuna,	now Tajuña,
  Tortola,	now Valdetórtola,
  Truxillo,	now Trujillo,
  Vierzo,	now El Bierzo,
  Villa de Cervo,	now Villar de Ciervo,
  Villaharta,	now Villarta de San Juan,
  Villa Nova de Famelicção,	now Vila Nova de Famalicão,
  Villanueva de Sitjas,	now Sitges,
  Villarodoña,	now Villarrodona,
  Vincente,	now Vicente,
  Vittoria,	now Vitoria,
  Zornoza,	now Amorebieta-Echano.

• Chapter headers and Table of contents have been made consistent.
• Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the book.
• In some devices page display may need to be rotated in order to see tables in their full width.
• In the following pages, the anchor placement for the mentioned footnote is conjectured; no anchor was found in the printed original: p. 27, n. 35; p. 49, n. 57; p. 293, n. 353; p. 316, n. 390; p. 343, n. 427; p. 372, n. 466; p. 420, n. 524.
• In Appendix IV, the meaning of the marks preceding regiment names seems to be those used in Volume I, App. VIII: “* marks an old regiment of the regular army; † a militia regiment; ‡ a regiment of new levies.”