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The next day the army halted, as the French had not come up in sufficient numbers to give battle, and on the following day marched in good order into Corunna, where, to the bitter disappointment of the general, the fleet had not yet arrived.
"I am not a doctor," he answered, "but I confess that I think very badly of him, and I believe that the woman is right, and that a doctor would be useless." They rode on silently for a time, when Colonel George said, "That poor woman looked nearly as ill as her son. She went through terrible things before Corunna, but the last few days must have been almost worse.
As to Portugal, we know very little at present, but I expect there is not a pin to choose between them and the Spaniards." "Then we are not going to Lisbon?" Terence said, in surprise. "I expect not. Sir Arthur won't determine anything until he joins us after his visit to Corunna, but I don't think that it will be at Lisbon, anyhow.
The naval transactions of Great Britain were in the course of this year remarkably spirited. In the Mediterranean, admiral Rowley had succeeded Matthews in the command; Savona, Genoa, Final, St. Remo, with Bastia, the capital of Corsica, were bombarded; several Spanish ships were taken; but he could not prevent the safe arrival of their rich Havannah squadron at Corunna.
I was, like my friend Lieutenant Ryan, in the Mayo Fusiliers; when I had the good fortune to be mentioned, in despatches, in connection with an affair in which the transport that took us out to Portugal was engaged with two French privateers. In consequence of the mention, General Fane appointed me one of his aides-de-camp; and I acted in that capacity during the campaign that ended at Corunna.
Terence had hoped that when he arrived at Lisbon he should meet the army he had left at Corunna, for Sir John Moore's instructions had been precise that the fleet was to go thither. These instructions, however, had been disobeyed, and the fleet had sailed direct for England. It had on the way encountered a great storm, which had scattered it in all directions.
"That may be true, Garcia; but you know that when we were here for I was with the British army that marched through Salamanca the Spanish authorities were no more willing to assist than were the Portuguese; and not a single soldier with the exception of two or three thousand half-armed men under Romana joined, from the day we crossed the frontier to that on which we embarked to Corunna."
Never during Philip's life-time, nor for several years before his birth, had a hostile foot trod the soil of Spain, except during the brief landing at Corunna in 1590, and, although the king's beard had been well singed ten years previously by Sir Francis Drake, and although the coast of Portugal had still more recently been invaded by Essex and Vere, yet the present adventure was on a larger scale, and held out brighter prospects of success than any preceding expedition had done.
As to their being any good to us as allies, it is not to be hoped for; they will take our arms and our money, expect us to feed their troops, and will then run away at the sight of a French soldier; you will see if they don't." "I hear that the Junta of Corunna says that all the north will rise as soon as we enter their country."
Lawrence transferred into the Grenadier company The regiment embarks at Cadiz for Lisbon again in consequence of Sir John Moore's defeat at Corunna Hospitality of an English merchant March to join Sir Arthur Wellesley at Castello Branco The Spanish troops reviewed Lawrence's opinion of them Battle of Talavera Lawrence's opinion of the Spaniards justified Severe fighting on the second day of the battle Friendliness between the wounded Final attack and repulse of the French Horrible fate of some of the wounded Advance to Oropesa The Spanish General Cuesta deserts the wounded at Talavera March towards Badajoz Privations on the road Fresh supply of clothes at Badajoz Lawrence invalided to Elvas Is cured chiefly by reflecting on his manner of burial Returns to Badajoz Sir Arthur Wellesley made Viscount Wellington End of 1809.
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