History of the Consulate And the Empire of France Under Napoleon volume 7
History of the Consulate And the Empire of France Under Napoleon volume 7
Adolphe Thiers
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Our officers and soldiers of engineers, well aided by the infantry, carried on the approaches with great boldness, and within ten days the breaching batteries were enabled to open fire and overthrow a large portion of the wall. At the sight of our columns ready to mount to the assault, the populace, which had at first displayed much ardour, was terrified ; the garrison and the governor made no endeavour to prolong the defence, and on the 23rd of January the gates were opened to our troops. On t...he 26th, Marshal Soult departed for Badajoz, the second fortress situated on the left of the Guadiana, and the only important one. On the right bank of the Guadiana, almost vis-a-vis with the castle of Badajoz, is the fort of St. Christoval, which serves as a protection to an entrenched camp established on the heights of Santa Engracia. The river Gevora, which falls into the Guadiana, washes and protects this camp of Santa Engracia, and here, at this period, Avas the Spanish army of the Marquis de la Homana, which, after having been dispersed by the 5th corps, had speedily re-formed, as was usual with the Spanish armies, and had been rejoined by the seven or eight thousand men who had been sent to Lisbon.
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