History of the Peninsular War, Volume 4 (of 6)Southey, Robert
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History of the Peninsular War, Volume 4 (of 6)
Southey, Robert
Peninsular War, 1807-1814
While O’Donnell thus successfully executed his orders on one side,
D. Juan Claros acted on another in concert with the Doctor Colonel
Rovira. Rovira dislodged the enemy from the castle of Montagut, which
they had fortified. Claros at the same time attacked them on the left
bank of the Ter, dislodged them from the height which they occupied
on that part of the river, killed the Westphalian General Hadelin,
burnt their encampments at Sarria and Montrospe, and won the battery
of Casa Enroca. Llanden meantime obtained possession of the heights
of Los Angeles: this opened a way for ♦GARCIA CONDE ENTERS WITH
REINFORCEMENTS.♦ the convoy, with which Garcia Conde, at the head of
4000 foot and 500 horse, advanced from Amer, crossed the Ter, and
hastened along the right bank toward Gerona. The attention of the enemy
had been so well diverted by the attacks on other points, that the
Spaniards were enabled to break through the force which had been left
there, set fire to the tents, and effect their entrance. Six hundred
men sallied at the same time from the city to the plain of Salt, partly
to assist in confusing the enemy, but more for the purpose of restoring
water to the only two mills within the walls. In this they failed;
for, since the French had broken the water-courses, it was discovered
that the weather had completed their destruction; ... had not this
detachment thus uselessly employed their time, they might have carried
off the besiegers’ magazines from Salt.
♦INADEQUACY OF THIS RELIEF.♦
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