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Wellington had no wish to risk a battle, unless Salamanca or his own rear should be seriously threatened, and he stood on the defensive, a little south of Salamanca, with Marmont's army encamped in front of him. Early on July 22, the French seized one of two hills called the Arapiles which formed the key of the position and commanded the road to Ciudad Rodrigo.
News of all this was brought to the Bishop, and the Dominicans advised him not to go on, but he said: "If I do not go to Ciudad Real, I banish myself from my own church, and it will be said of me with reason, 'The wicked flee when no man pursueth." He added: "The minds of men change from hour to hour.
Las mas recentes noticias que tenian en Demeraria, antes de mi salida, eran medias tristes, medias alegres. Tristes digo, viendo que Valencia ha caido en poder del enemigo comun, y el General Blake, y sus valientes tropas, quedan prisioneros de guerra. Alegres, al contrario, porque Milord Wellington se ha apoderado de Ciudad Rodrigo.
Full details of numbers are given in the "Histoire critique de l'Inquisition d'Espagne," Llorente, t. Total ................... 52,855 In A.D. 1485, no less than 950 persons were burned at Villa Real, now Ciudad Real. Spite of all this awful suffering, heretics and Jews remained antagonistic to the church, and in March, A.D. 1492, the edict of the expulsion of the Jews was signed.
During the week that followed, the Minho regiment was engaged in watching the defiles by which Massena might communicate with Ciudad Rodrigo, or through which reinforcements might reach him.
The Scudamores had but little fear of meeting with any large body of the enemy, as the main French advance was direct from Ciudad Rodrigo; their cavalry would, however, be scattered all over the country, and were they to fall into the hands of any of these parties they would have been shot instantly, upon suspicion of endeavoring to convey news of the French movements to Craufurd.
After a brief search up and down the ill-printed columns, he found the desired paragraph, and read aloud: 'The Queen is in Madrid. The Queen Regent journeys from Seville to rejoin her daughter in the capital, prosecuting her journey by easy stages and accompanied by a small guard. Her Majesty sleeps at Ciudad Real to-night, and at Toledo to-morrow night.
Six weeks in hospital at Estremoz A new way to keep up the spirits Lawrence allowed to go on to Salamanca at his own risk He catches the fever there, and has to go into hospital again at Ciudad Rodrigo At last rejoins his regiment Cessation of hostilities on both sides, and the British Army goes into cantonments Lawrence made a corporal The cat's paw comes in for its share of the booty, and gets the chestnuts into the bargain A romantic episode to relieve the monotony of war.
The bull-dog ferocity of a half- intoxicated Anglo-Saxon, pushing his blind way against the converging cannon-fire from the shattered walls of Ciudad Rodrigo, commends itself neither to my reason nor my fancy.
The orders of Napoleon, and the deference of Massena to these instructions, had spared us the danger of being attacked in the rear; when the French army advanced to encounter Lord Wellington, it had taken possession of Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida, but the two sieges had been long and painful, having cost the lives of many soldiers; important garrisons occupied the places.
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