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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: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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one which had preceded it. Itreached the main store of gabions and planks within thefort, and threatened the powder magazine. The garrison wereevidently flinching from their guns, as the counter-fire fromthe place, hitherto very lively, began to flag, and the wholebuilding was wrapped in smoke. Thereupon Wellington ordered San Cayetano to be stormecfor the second time. The column charged with the operationcrept forward along the trench at the bottom of the ravine.fairly well covered till it had reached the spot immediatelybelow the gorge of the fort. Just as the forlorn hope wasabout to start out of the trench, a white flag was shown fronthe breach. The captain commanding in San Cayetano askecfor two hours truce, to enable him to communicate with hbchief in San Vincente, promising to surrender at the end of thaitime. Wellington offered him five minutes to march out, if h(1 Jones, Sieges of the Peninsula, i. p. 285. SALAMANCA FORTS ( S.Bernardo ApproximateScale of Vards ^ 100 200 .300
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B V.axtaskcv-e VU^A i^ih 1812) THE FORTS SURRENDER 377 wished to preserve his garrisons lives and baggage. As theFrenchmen continued to haggle and argue, he was told to takedown his white flag, as the assault was about to be delivered.When the stormers ran in, San Cayetano made practically nodefence, though a few shots were fired, which caused sixcasualties in the assaulting column : the greater part of thegarrison threw down their muskets and made no resistance. At the same moment the white flag went up on San Vincentealso : here the conflagration was now burning up so fiercelythat the French had been able to spare no attention for thestorming-party that captured San Cayetano. The governor,Duchemin, asked for three hours suspension of arms, andmade a proposal of terms of surrender. Wellington, here as atthe smaller fort, refused to grant time, as he thought that thefire would be subdued and the defence prolonged, if he allowedhours to be wasted in negotiations. He sent in th

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