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We now learned that the enemy had some 15, 000 men upon the Upper Tormes, and that Marmont might be expected to * " Our own Correspondent" in the l Times, ' on the landing of our troops in the Crimea, expresses his astonishment that " old generals, young lords, and gentlemen" should bivouac and have "no bed but a reeking puddle, under a saturated blanket. " From the year 1808 to that of 1813 our army were without tents ; and many a night, in the four first campaigns in the Peninsula, and even t...he nights at Quatre Bras and before Waterloo, have these " old generals" experienced this unheard-of hardship. IN THE TRENCHES AGAIN. 219 make every possible exertion to relieve Ciudad Rodrigo from our attack. Still, we well knew the rapid and prompt action of our chief in anything he undertook, and with perfect confidence we awaited the result. On the 11th, at daybreak, most part of our bat- tering train from Almeida passed through Gallegos for the trenches on the Tesso Grande ; and on the 13th we again moved towards the city, to resume our share of industry in accomplishing the batteries and advances of our works of attack.
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