Intelligence of Soult’s advance 34 Soult occupies Plasencia 35 Sir Arthur marches against him 36 Cuesta determines to follow Sir Arthur 38 Cuesta joins the British 39 They retreat across the Tagus 40 Colonel Mackinnon removes part of the wounded 41 Defeat of the Spaniards at Arzobispo 43 Movements of Marshal Ney 45 Action with Sir Robert Wilson at the Puerto de Baños 46 The French enter Talavera 48 Victor behaves well to the English wounded 49 Murder of the Bishop of Coria 50 Venegas’s army kept inactive before and after the battle of Talavera 51 His useless attempt upon Toledo 53 He complains of Cuesta 55 The Intruder’s movements after the battle 56 Venegas prepares to fight at Aranjuez 57 Aranjuez and its gardens 59 The French repulsed there 63 Deliberations concerning the army of La Mancha 63 Venegas resolves to attack the enemy 65 The French attack him 66 Battle of Almonacid 67 CHAPTER XXV. Soult proposes to invade Portugal 71 Sir Arthur Wellesley raised to the Peerage 74 Marquis Wellesley arrives in Spain 75 Distress of the army for provisions 75 Disputes with Cuesta concerning supplies 77 Mr. Frere requires the removal of Cuesta 80 Cuesta resigns the command 82 Eguia succeeds _ad interim_ 84 Calvo sent to see to the supplies 85 Lord Wellington declares his intention of falling back 86 Correspondence with Eguia and Calvo 88 Marquis Wellesley proposes a plan for supplying the armies 91 His ill opinion of the Spanish government 93 Lord Wellington objects to taking a position on the Guadiana 95 Alburquerque appointed to the command in Extremadura 96