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Title: A history of the Peninsular War
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Oman, Charles William Chadwick, Sir, 1860-1946
Subjects: Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e-Clarence in Beresfords rear:the 6th Division had not yet come up from its cantonments onthe Nive, but was starting for Hasparren. Evidently Wellingtonwas not intending to make his second series of blows againstSoults left flank until he was sure that Beresford was in nodanger from the French divisions in the direction of Peyrehoradeand Port de Lanne. It was not till he ascertained that not onlyFoy but Darmagnac also had moved eastward, behind the line 1 For an account of this from the ranks, see Sergeant Robertson, pp. 127-8.He says that Wellington himself was present, and started the regiment forthe attack, sitting on the bank near Beans horse-artillery battery. 2 No two people seem to be able to spell the name of this place inthe same way. Soult calls it Riveyrete, Napier Arriveriete, LapeneArriverette, Wellington Arriverete. I follow modern maps. 3 To be exact, 3 killed and 15 wounded. THE COUNTRY AND THE ROADS BETWEEN BAYONNE AND OKTHEZTo illustrate the Campaign oP Februaru i8i4
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ScaLe of Mites AdourR^ScBoucau Biarritz W Ascain yera \ Zagararnurdi N*0** S P £/ A I N )Maya j Vh& Bast an// ( J>bEbiennefde Baigorri _ itlizondooSbrEsbeban 1814) WELLINGTONS HALT FEB. 18-21 329 of the Gave de Pau, that he drew off the Light and 6th Divisionsfrom Beresfords area of operations to that of Hill. There was now to be a four days interval on the Gave dOloronbefore the great game of turning Soults left wing was resumed.Wellington, as we shall see, having succeeded in his initialmanoeuvre, the drawing off of the greater part of his adversarysarmy far to the east and the inland, was now about to direct inperson the second act—the investment of Bayonne by the cross-ing of the Adour at its mouth, for which he had left the corpsof Hope behind him. If Soult had tried any offensive schemein this period of four days—February 19th-23rd—he would haverun against Beresford with four divisions that could be easilyconcentrated in the north, or against Hill, also with fourdi

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