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Updated: June 21, 2025
This did not prevent his doing his best to justify it and to imitate it by sending Junot's expedition to Portugal, with instructions to seize the Portuguese fleet at Lisbon.
Ah! my dear Madame Junot," he added, giving her ear a delicate pinch, "those were the days when life seemed worth the living when one of a taciturn nature and prone to irritability could find real pleasure in existence. Oh to be unknown again!" And then, Madame Junot's husband having entered the room, the Emperor once more relapsed into a moody silence. But to return to Brienne.
By this strange compact the whole of Junot's force was to be conveyed from Portugal to France on British ships, while the Russian squadron blockaded in the Tagus was to be held by us in pledge till the peace, the crews being sent on to Russia.
But Massena was ten miles in the rear, and did not come up until next day, with Junot's corps; by which time the whole of the British army was ranged along the opposite heights. Their force could be plainly made out from the French position, and so formidable were the heights that had to be scaled by an attacking force that Ney, impetuous and brave as he was, no longer advocated an attack.
Some of Junot's wagons also had been captured or abandoned. Three wagons had been raided and robbed by stragglers from Davout's corps.
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