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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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t on Toulouse had been blocked, and the second was im-perilled—for to defile across the front of Wellingtons advanceon the road Tarbes-Trie-Castelnau was obviously dangerous,though Soult was still hoping to make this manoeuvre3. Thereremained only the southern and more hilly road by Tournayand St. Gaudens which was not yet menaced. Soults main body had trailed across bad by-ways all throughthe day of the 19th, and was lucky not to have been molestedin its retreat, for there was now an overpowering cavalry forcein front of Hills column—his old mounted regiments, FanesBritish and Campbells Portuguese, had just been reinforced bythe coming up of Cliftons heavy dragoon brigade fresh from 1 Late Fririons division, and before that, Foys division. Daricau tookit over a few days later. 2 Martiniens list shows 15 officers killed and wounded in Pariss andDarmagnacs divisions. Soult called his loss sensible. Soult to Clarke,March 20. 3 Ibid. ORTHEZ TO TOULOUSE, FEBRUARY 27th- APRIL IIth 1814
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lg^e Ws^W ^^OloronMauleon Wr H £ Scale of Miles 10 20 30 AO 1814) SOULT FALLS BACK ON TARBES 443 Spain. There were only two Chasseur regiments with Reillesand Clausels retreating force. Apparently their movement wasmade under cover of successive deployments of an infantry rear-guard, placed in a favourable position, which the pursuingcavalry dared not attack. And when the head of WilliamStewarts division came up, the enemy on each occasion retiredbehind a second rear-guard, placed a few miles back. Hence ifthe retreat was slow and difficult, the pursuit was always checkedtill the leading infantry had arrived and begun to deploy—when the enemy absconded. The only incident recorded fromthis fatiguing series of operations is the story given by Napierof the daring ride of Captain William Light1. At nightfallReilles and Clausels divisions bivouacked about Ibos and othervillages just to the west of Tarbes, Hills a few miles behindthem. All the forces on both sides were now converging on

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