Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-10-26
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- 80, '''' :. ny Fail The ARM,
he meant hal! Of each army,I could on b,a'y'
! swer that was ready to go or stay WIKI "'
whole british army, Eu, tia! | could w.. .''
perate it. He thep desired ny, to e u It,
whether. would go Or stay, and NJ, t. r''s
to 60, from thnking ,ha, tilr British ,roo .u
wele Nest likely to do the business cF.e,rr
ally and without contest and from bs;;. s
at opinion, tia, TO oP'n the communicate
through Placentia was more Important r. -
than 10 them, sltho' very inrortan, to ;ssn,
With this decision gen. Cucs,a Appeared
perfectly satisfied.
The movements of the enemy in our (ro,,
since the 1st had induced me to he Of n:.
Mon, tina; drspairing Of forcing us at Tai,
vera, they intended to force PASSIVE ~
Escalona ard thus open communicate,
with the French corps coming from Pisce,.
tia.
This suspicion was confirmed on the nirh,
Of the Cd, by letters received from sir EO.
bert Wilson, Of which | enclose copies. and
before quilted Talavera on the Cd vsi,.
ed on general O'Donnosdus, and conve,sed
with him upon the whole of our situation, &
pointed out 20 him the possibility that IN IL.
case ct the enemy coming through EscalOra
gen. Cuesta might find himself obliged To-
quit 1alavera before should be able TO re.
turn to him and urged him to collec, all
the carts that could be got, in order to re.
move our hospital. At his desire, Iputt!e
rurport of this conversation in writing, and
sent him letter to be laid before zen. CT.
esta, of which enclose COPY.
The British army narcned on the 81 20
Prospesa, gen. Bassecourts Spanish cors
being at Centin=lo, where I desired tia, il
might halt the mex, Gay,in order thai might
be nearer it.
About 5 O'Clock in ,hc evening, heard
that the French had arrived from Pacenta
at Navalno1ai, whereby they were between
u. and the bridge of Almamz.
About an hour afterwards irsceiyed from
gen. O'Donnoahue the letter aud lis laclos'
ures of which ! enc!ose copies, announcing
to me the intention Of general Cuesa 10
m.r h from Talavera in the evenlnS,anl
to leave there my hospital, exceP! such men
as could be moved BIZ the means he already
had, on the ground oihis apprehension that
was not strong enough for me corps eo'''
ing from P!acen,ia, and that the eTen1y was
moving upon his flank, aud had returned to
Santa OIlala in hi: front.
acknowledge that these reasons dd not
appear to nc sufficient for g:vinS NTs' I'M
portant pos: as Talavcra, for exp'''n5tAs
combined armies to attack in iioa: aai. rear
at the same time, and for atantca'ng my
hospital; and | wrote the letter OF WHICH,
inclose a copy.
Thu, unfortunately reached the genera
after he had marched, and nc s'r'ea d
Cropesa shortly after day E6'i' IN Wv
morning Of the 9TH.
The question what was to be done wa,
then to be considered. The enemy, "a'su
TO be $4,000 strong, but at all eyFH.s 'us
sis;ns Of the corps Of souit and ~" ~, VI
tflCr unltcQ OF UUl set N''' J,,
other, and supposed by "a:s'A Z sDa ,o,l,
and Joseph Bonaparte, to he sull.s 1 ~
strong to attack the British army S'.'" o,
be $4,000 .,rons, were on one side, IA p' '
session of the high road to tie pSss'ohh ;,h
the Tasus at Almarez, the bridge - " arhn'
place we knew had been removed " IL,
the boats still necessarily ren'a'nS' ;" >
river. .oep
On the other side, we had reason W. T,,l,.
pct the advance of Victor's corps" .soull I
vera, az soon as gen. Cuesta na 1oo r,.n to
lie known, ard slte. leaving 12'G'o VI" 10 10
watch Venegas, and allowing ' Us, i,,e se.
1900 killed and wounded III I'' ,, ~. %
ton, this cops would have sn'1 1u"s r. from
25,oco. We could extricste QUIZ QUIZ. ,sl.riy
this difficult; situation only BY gre" we're W
of novemen. (to which the troop ,lousnos
equal, as ,hey had no: had TIER -, a' BY sue,
Of provisions for several days anu .G'i ind-
cess in two battles. Ii u0su'' -, ~ . retra!;
Their, we should have been w'ia''u' action,
and if Soult and Ney avo,''n5 n ~ IN