  The Backlund Transform, first developed in the context of differential
geometry, has been classically used to obtain multi-soliton states in
completely integrable infinite dimensional dynamical systems. It has recently
been used to study the stability of these special solutions. We offer here a
dynamical perspective on the Backlund Transform, prove an abstract orbital
stability theorem, and demonstrate its utility by applying it to the
sine-Gordon equation and the Toda lattice.
