Transcriber’s Note: Sidenotes are shown in UPPER-CASE and enclosed in ♦DIAMOND SYMBOLS♦; italic text is enclosed in _underscores_. Superscripts are indicated as ^o, ^r, or ^{er}. Other notes will be found at the end of this eBook. HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR. “Unto thee “Let thine own times as an old story be.” DONNE. BY ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ. LL.D. POET LAUREATE, HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY, OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY OF HISTORY, OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF THE NETHERLANDS, OF THE CYMMRODORION, OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ETC. A NEW EDITION. _IN SIX VOLUMES._ VOL. VI. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. MDCCCXXXVII. Ἱστορίας γὰρ ἐὰν ἀφέλῃ τις τὸ διὰ τί, καὶ πῶς, καὶ τίνος χάριν ἐπράχθη, καὶ τὸ πραχθὲν πότερα εὔλογον ἔσχε τὸ τέλος, τὸ καταλειπόμενον αὐτῆς ἀγώνισμα μὲν, μάθημα δὲ οὐ γίγνεται· καὶ παραυτίκα μὲν τέρπει, πρὸς δὲ τὸ μέλλον οὐδὲν ὠφελεῖ τὸ παράπαν. POLYBIUS, lib. iii. sect. 31. CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH VOLUME CHAPTER XLI. (CONTINUED.) Page Duran enters Soria 1 Members of the Junta of Burgos seized by the French and put to death 2 Circumstances of the execution 4 Treatment of their bodies 5 Retaliatory executions 6 El Manco 7 Mutual retaliations 7 Guerrilla exploits 8 Intercepted letters from the Intruder 9 Sir Rowland Hill’s expedition against the bridge of Almaraz 12 Ballasteros defeated at Bornos 16 Lord Wellington advances into Spain 16 Salamanca 17 The Tormes 18 The allies enter Salamanca 18 Siege of the forts there 19 Marmont moves to relieve them 21 Surrender of the forts 24 Marmont falls back upon the Douro 25 Lord Wellington advances to that river 26 The Douro 27 Marmont reinforced by General Bonnet 28 Lord Wellington retires before him 29