His subsequent successes in conjunction with Duran 355
A price set upon the heads of Mina and his officers 356
Cruchaga carries off the enemy’s stores from Tafalla 359
Mina’s object in soliciting for military rank 360
He establishes himself in the suburb and in the port 371
Blake abandons the lines and retires into the city 375
Suchet expects a desperate resistance 377
Blake surrenders the city to the army 379
Ballasteros retreats to the lines of St. Roque 384
Colonel Skerrett and Copons arrive there 389
Colonel Grant rescued by the Guerrillas 399
Distress both of the Intrusive and Legitimate Governments 404
Schemes for strengthening the Spanish government 406
Lord Wellington prepares for the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo 411
St. Francisco’s and the suburbs taken 419
Lord Wellington made Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo 428
Speeches of Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Whitbread 428
Preparations for the siege of Badajoz 429
Soult advances to relieve the place, and retreats 448
Arrangement for the defence of that frontier 449
Marmont deterred by a feint from assaulting Almeida 450
Advance of the French to Castello Branco, and their retreat 452
Marmont attempts to surprise the Portugueze at Guarda 452
Flight of the Portugueze militia by the Mondego 453
Communication from the Prince Regent to the leaders of opposition 458
Overtures from the Ministers to Marquis Wellesley and Mr. Canning 468
Marquis Wellesley’s reasons for declining them 470
Marquis Wellesley charged to form an administration 473
Lords Grey and Grenville also decline 474
Marquis Wellesley receives fuller powers 476
Marquis Wellesley resigns his commission 480
Pecuniary assistance to the Spaniards 492
CATALONIA. MEQUINENZA AND TORTOSA TAKEN. EXPEDITIONS ON THE COASTS OF BISCAY AND OF ANDALUSIA. GUERRILLAS.
While Lord Wellington detained in Portugal the most numerous of the French armies, defied their strength and baffled their combinations, events of great importance, both military and civil, were taking place in Spain.
The command in Catalonia had devolved upon Camp-Marshal Juan Manuel de Villena, during the time that O’Donell was invalided by his wound. He had to oppose in Marshal Macdonald a general of higher reputation and of a better stamp than Augereau. Augereau had passed through the revolutionary war without obtaining any worse character than that of rapacity; but in Catalonia he manifested a ferocious and cruel temper, of which he had not before been suspected. Every armed Catalan who fell alive into his hand was sent to the gibbet: the people were not slow at reprisals, and war became truly dreadful when cruelty appeared on both sides to be only the exercise of vindictive justice: it was made so hateful to the better part of the German soldiers, and to the younger French also, whose hearts had not yet been seared, that they sought eagerly for every opportunity of fighting, in the hope of receiving wounds ♦VON STAFF, 296.♦ which should entitle them to their dismission, or, at the worst, of speedily terminating a life which was rendered odious by the service wherein they were engaged.