Twelve Years Military Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Vll Light Division crosses the Douro, and enters Toro. A fiair of Cavalry. Tenth Hussars. Colonel Grant. Description of Toro. Inscription on the Gate of that Town 167 CHA iPTER XXXVII. A mount of the A rmy. Advance in the direction of Valla dolid. Reception by the Spaniards. Disagreeable duty on a forced. March. r Description of the Country. Palencia. Devastations of the French A rmy. Encampment in Rain. Approach to Burgos, Affair with the French Rear-guard. Burgos blown up. Cross the Ebro. A beautiful Valley. Failure of our Supplies. Anecdote connected with that subject. Affair with a Division of the French A rmy. French Order of March. Arrival near the Enemy s Position at Vittoria. Extraordinary Dream of the Author s183 CHAPTER XXXVI li. French Position at Vittoria. Battle. Anecdotes connected with it. March in pursuit of the Enemy. Villages plundered by the French. French Bivouac. New kind of dish. French system of Retreat. Patriotism of a Spanish Peasant. Arrival at Pampluna. Army Suttlers. Murder of a Spanish Priest 206 CHAPTER XXXIX. March in pursuit of General Clausel. Arrival at Tafalla. .- Meet the Volunteers of Navarre. Enter the Pyrenees.
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