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INGILBY DIARY. 
1811. 
Sept. 29th. 
„ 30th, 
Oct. 25th. 
„ 26th. 
„ 27th. 
* 30th. 
Dec. 1st. 
n 21st. 
1812. 
Jan. 4th. 
n 5th. 
n 8th. 
n 9th. 
„ 10th. 
» 11th. 
,, 13th. 
* 17th. 
n 18th. 
n 19th. 
superior force of cavalry and defeated them. The attention of the 
Army was called to this gallant action by Lord Wellington. In the 
afternoon the Brigade marched with a Division of Infantry to Bis 
Muta, and, continuing our retreat entirely throughout the night; 
bivouacked on the 28th on the right bank of the Coa, near the village 
of Kendo. 
Passed the Coa at a ford near the bivouac, and halted at Data. 
Cantoned in the village of Baracal. While here was again attacked 
with severe bowel complaint, and became so extremely ill and reduced 
in strength that I frequently doubted of my chance of ever recovering, 
and was still suffering when at night, on the 23rd October, we marched, 
and halted in the morning of the 24th at Guarda. The horses had 
been ill-foraged of late and were weak. Guarda stands higher than 
any city in Portugal, which made the march both tedious and very 
laborious. It happened to be a severe frost in the night, and from 
mere exhaustion, in consequence of illness, I had great difficulty in 
sitting upon my horse and undergoing the fatigue of superintending 
the passing the guns up the mountain, but whether the extreme cold 
in my state, or the activity imposed upon me, or both enjoined to have 
a good effect upon my health, I recovered as it were at once, and next 
morning my bowel complaint had ceased. 
Puchoso. 
The road leading to the bridge being impracticable we forded the 
Coa, and continuing our march, bivouacked at Bis Muta. 
Aldea Bibeira. 
San Pedro. 
Cantoned at Yal de Madeira. 
Moved into cantonments at Freiexed de Torrao, in order to better 
forage the horses. 
Villa Turpim. 
Alemeda, in Spain. 
San Pedro, in Portugal. C. Rodrigo was invested and, ground 
being broken, the siege commenced. 
Cantoned in Castellejo de dos Casas. 
Passed the Aqueda by a temporary bridge made by the Engineers, 
and the Brigade co-operated in covering the operations against C. 
Rodrigo with a Division of Infantry. 
Being relieved by another Corps, the Brigade returned to its can¬ 
tonments at Castellejo. 
C. Rodrigo and back to Castellejo. 
The company marched before daybreak into the batteries before C. 
Rodrigo, leaving our guns and horses at Castellejo. 
Castellejo. 
I marched with the howitzer to assist in the batteries before C. Rod¬ 
rigo. After the necessary preparations, and two breaches being 
practicable, at a quarter before 8 o'clock in the evening the assault 
was began. There was a severe contest for about three-quarters-of- 
an-hour at the breaches, but the troops succeeding in forcing them, 
and the 3rd Division having scaled the walls at other points, the place 
fell and the garrison were made prisoners of war. 
