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There was much laughter among the officers at his assumption of command, and at the subsequent steps he took to form his mob of men into an orderly body; but interest took the place of amusement as he told how they had prevented the French from crossing at the mouth of the Minho, and caused Soult to take the circuitous and difficult route by Orense.
The next day three or four thousand other irregulars from the valley of Avia were attacked and scattered, and on the 18th the French cavalry, with three brigades of infantry, entered Orense. An hour earlier Terence had arrived on the other side of the river, and had at once made preparations for blowing up the bridge.
Back to Gibraltar The Parting with Albert The Tongue of Scandal Voyage to Malaga "No Police, no Anything" Federalism Triumphant Madrid in Statu Quo Orense Progress of the Royalists On the Road Home In the Insurgent Country Stopped by the Carlists An Angry Passenger is Silenced. "How like a boulder tossed by Titans at play!" said the sentimental lady, as we approached Gibraltar on our return.
As he marched down the valley of the Lima, he had learned from Romana that he and Silveira had decided to fall back to Chaves, and that he agreed with Terence's opinion that he had better remain in the rear of the French, and intercept their communications with Orense. On the following morning the French advanced in force to Monterey.
As it is, it was commenced at least fifty years after the cathedral of Lugo, and though both are twelfth-century churches, the one is an early and the other presumably a late one; the employment of the ogival arch to a greater degree in Orense than in Lugo is thus easily explained.
"They fought, General, in the campaign last year," he said, "and the regiment takes its name from the fact that they prevented Marshal Soult from crossing at the mouth of the Minho; but their first encounter with your cavalry was near Orense." "I remember it well," the general said, "for I was in command of the cavalry that attacked you.
Both had plans equally wild and impracticable, neither would give way, and as they were well aware that their forces would never act together, they decided to act independently against the French. At the end of eight days the news came that Soult, having made all his preparations, had left Orense on his march southward.
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