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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Maid of Saragossa

Augustina Zaragoza, distinguished for her heroism when Saragossa was besieged in 1808 and 1809. Byron refers to her in his Childe Harold.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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