text:  In that memoir I shall simply say that Spain has six ranges of mountains all impregnable and that the Spanish people are resolved to defend them; that the country is one vast natural fortress; that the Spanish soldier can sleep on the sand can live on the simplest food and the smallest quantity of that food; that he can march fifty miles a-day; that he is of the same blood as the conquerors of the Moors and with the soldiers of Charles V