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Identifier: historyofpeninsu07oman (find matches)
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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his communication withHills corps shortened; so long as the pontoons were at LaCapellette there were more than twelve miles between the twosections of the army, and for every mile that the main bodyadvanced southward, the longer would be the detour to be madeacross the bridge. Wellington had intended to spend the 8th in marching againstToulouse, along the high road between Garonne and Ers, and tofight upon the 9th. But this plan failed, owing to the removal andrelaying of the pontoon-bridge taking a far longer time than hadbeen calculated. Instead of being ready on the night of the 8th,it was not refixed at Seilh till 3 oclock on the afternoon of the9th—an hour so late that by the time that the Light Division hadcrossed, the commander-in-chief decided that it was impossibleto begin a battle that day. 1 Soults very interesting dispatches and orders of April 3rd-8th are allprinted in the Wellington Supplementary Dispatches, xiv. pp. 454-64. THE TOULOUSE COUNTRY, MARCH 26-Aprii 14 i8)4
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1814) COMBAT OF CROIX DORADE 463 The 8th indeed was mainly spent in getting the troops forwardtoward the outer defences of Toulouse. There was no fightingsave at one point. Soults chasseurs a cheval kept falling backbefore Wellingtons advance on both sides of the Ers, breakingeach bridge as they passed by southward: Bertons brigade wason the western bank of the Ers, Vials on the eastern. No bridgewas saved till that of Croix dOrade, which was captured by abold stroke of Vivian and the 18th Hussars. Vial had tworegiments in position—the 5th and 22nd Chasseurs—and hadmade preparations for destroying the bridge and retiring atleisure, but was charged unexpectedly by Vivian, who caughtthe 22nd unawares, broke it, and chased it across the bridge—despite of a flanking fire from dismounted men of the 5thChasseurs on the other side of the water. Vivian was disabledby a carbine-shot in the arm just as he gave the order to charge—but must surely be given the credit for this success, tho

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